What happened
Baidu introduced ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview ahead of its Baidu World conference and said the model will soon be open source. The article reports 280 billion total parameters, 14 billion activated per inference, a 1 million token context window, and generation above 200 tokens per second. Its demonstrations include a browser-playable Backrooms game and a Blender-built Suzhou garden, while Baidu says it trained the model with 14 million executable code tasks.
Why it matters
The article connects hands-on coding demonstrations with the training and workflow methods behind them, including executable tasks and tool feedback loops for completing longer projects.