Jul
8th

Baidu release Ernie open source models

ERNIE 4.5 is designed to be powerful, flexible, and accessible to developers and researchers.

What is ERNIE 4.5?

  • A family of 10 open-source AI models created by Baidu.
  • Supports text, images, audio, and video (multimodal).
  • Uses a smart architecture called Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) to improve efficiency and performance.

Key Features

  • Multimodal training: Combines text and visuals for better understanding.
  • Efficient scaling: Uses advanced techniques to train faster and cheaper.
  • Post-training customization: Models are fine-tuned for specific tasks like language or vision.

Performance Highlights

  • Beats competitors like DeepSeek and Qwen3 on many benchmarks.
  • Even smaller models perform impressively well.
  • Excels in reasoning, visual understanding, and general knowledge.

How to Use It

  • Available on GitHub, Hugging Face, and Baidu AI Studio.
  • Works with PaddlePaddle and PyTorch.
  • Includes tools for training, compressing, and deploying models.

License

  • Released under Apache 2.0, meaning it’s free for commercial use.

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