Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, Plans Open-Source Weight Release
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Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview on November 11, making it available through the Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan API. The company describes it as a 280-billion-parameter model that activates 14 billion parameters per token, supports up to 1 million tokens of context, and generates more than 200 tokens per second. Baidu highlights coding, 3D modeling, knowledge work, and video creation. The API costs 2 yuan per million input tokens during peak hours and 1 yuan off-peak; output costs 8 yuan during peak hours and 4 yuan off-peak. Baidu says these prices are temporarily half off. The company plans to release the model weights to the global open-source community on November 25.
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- LeiphonePicksBaidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview With a Focus on Speed and Cost
Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, its third major move in a week, with the model available through the Qianfan platform’s web interface and API. The article describes coding, 3D modeling, knowledge work, and content creation capabilities, alongside benchmark results and hands-on game development tests. Baidu says the weights will be released under Apache 2.0 by November 25, with support for SGLang and vLLM.
- Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, Highlighting Coding Capabilities
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.
- QbitAIPicksBaidu Introduces ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview for End-to-End Coding
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.
- Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview for Coding and Creative Work
Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview on November 11, describing a 280-billion-parameter model that activates 14 billion parameters per token and supports up to 1 million tokens of context. The company says it generates more than 200 tokens per second and highlights coding, 3D modeling, knowledge work, and video creation. The model is available through the Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan platform API; its weights are scheduled for release to the global open-source community on November 25.
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