What happened
Baidu released its ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview model on November 11. The model has 280 billion total parameters, activates 14 billion parameters per token, and supports context up to 1 million tokens. Baidu said it is available through the Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan platform, with API access for developers; model weights are scheduled for release to the global open-source community on November 25.