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Baidu releases open-weight ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base

Baidu releases open-weight ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base

Baidu released BF16 and FP8 weights for its 280B-total/14B-active sparse MoE base model, with fine-tuning examples and vLLM recipes. Reported results across 30 benchmarks remain unverified; the finished chat/reasoning Flash version is still forthcoming.

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Updated Nov 5, 2026
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