At the opening ceremony of Baidu World 2026, Baidu officially launched “Ciyuansuo” (Token Exchange), a token trading platform for large models. It aims to build a trustworthy token trading market for large models and solve problems such as the difficulty of verifying the authenticity of model resources, service quality, and call stability.
According to the introduction, Ciyuansuo focuses on two major capabilities: authenticity verification and credit assessment. It verifies model resources through model fingerprint comparison, capability testing, and performance and availability testing, and uses mechanisms such as regular random inspections and active probing, as well as full-chain real-time monitoring of calls, to establish credit ratings for model providers and provide customers with neutral, transparent model trading services.
Robin Li, founder of Baidu, said that in the first nine months of this year, more than one new model was released almost every day, and demand for model calls grew sharply as a result. However, some token relay stations do not take responsibility for model performance, service stability, or response speed, and cannot even verify model authenticity. Ciyuansuo is infrastructure launched specifically to address this market pain point.
Baidu disclosed that in the first month since Ciyuansuo went live, more than 100 supply resources have joined, average daily calls have exceeded 50 million, and average daily token calls have exceeded 700 billion. As large-model applications continue to scale, resource verification, service evaluation, and credit mechanisms in the token trading market are becoming important parts of the industry chain.