Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model

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Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model

The Decoder · Nov 5, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so developers can take it wherever they want. The article Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model appeared first on The Decoder .

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