7 November 2026
Baidu releases open base model ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base, excluding EU, UK, South Korea
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- Baidu, the Chinese search company, released ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base, a foundation model that other developers can build on.
- The model is large: 280 billion total parameters, with 14 billion active per task.
- Its early test scores reportedly beat DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Base, a comparable model from rival Chinese lab DeepSeek.
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Architecture details, training scale, preliminary benchmark comparisons with DeepSeek, and license restrictions