Lab release history
Last updated May 8, 2026
Baidu model releases
Chinese internet and AI company behind the ERNIE / Wenxin model family. This page collects the lab's model releases, lifecycle events, source links, and model metadata in one crawlable record.
7 models
ERNIE 5.1
AvailableBaidu's flagship ERNIE 5.1, derived from ERNIE 5.0 by extracting an optimal sub-network from its elastic sub-model matrix — compressing total parameters to ~1/3 and active parameters to ~1/2 of ERNIE 5.0 while reaching leading performance at only ~6% of the pre-training compute of comparable models. A Mixture-of-Experts model trained with a disaggregated fully-asynchronous RL stack and a multi-teacher on-policy-distillation pipeline, tuned for agentic execution, reasoning, world knowledge, and creative writing. Vendor-reported results: 99.6 on AIME26 (with tools, second only to Gemini 3.1 Pro), GPQA and MMLU-Pro approaching leading closed models, surpassing DeepSeek-V4-Pro on τ³-bench and SpreadsheetBench-Verified, and ranking 1st among Chinese models / 4th globally (score 1223) on the LMArena Search Arena. Proprietary; served via ERNIE Bot, Baidu AI Studio, and the Qianfan platform.
ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B
AvailableBaidu's open ERNIE 4.5 language MoE, part of a 10-variant Apache-licensed model family built with heterogeneous multimodal MoE training.
ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B
AvailableBaidu's largest ERNIE 4.5 vision-language MoE, supporting text, image, and video inputs with thinking and non-thinking modes.
ERNIE X1
AvailableBaidu's reasoning model released alongside ERNIE 4.5 before the open ERNIE 4.5 weights.
ERNIE 4.0
AvailableBaidu's fourth-generation ERNIE flagship, announced with stronger understanding, generation, reasoning, and memory.
ERNIE Bot
AvailableBaidu's public chat assistant launch, built on the ERNIE foundation-model line.
ERNIE 3.0 Titan
RetiredBaidu's 260B-parameter ERNIE 3.0 Titan model, an early Chinese frontier-scale language model.