LLM Releases

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.

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ERNIE 5.1

Available
BaiduFrontierProprietary

Baidu'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.

MoEUndisc. ctxMay 8, 2026

ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B

Available
BaiduOpen source

Baidu's open ERNIE 4.5 language MoE, part of a 10-variant Apache-licensed model family built with heterogeneous multimodal MoE training.

MoE300B128K ctxJun 30, 2025

ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B

Available
BaiduOpen source

Baidu's largest ERNIE 4.5 vision-language MoE, supporting text, image, and video inputs with thinking and non-thinking modes.

MoE424B128K ctxJun 30, 2025

ERNIE X1

Available
BaiduProprietary

Baidu's reasoning model released alongside ERNIE 4.5 before the open ERNIE 4.5 weights.

Undisc. ctxMar 16, 2025

ERNIE 4.0

Available
BaiduProprietary

Baidu's fourth-generation ERNIE flagship, announced with stronger understanding, generation, reasoning, and memory.

Undisc. ctxOct 17, 2023

ERNIE Bot

Available
BaiduProprietary

Baidu's public chat assistant launch, built on the ERNIE foundation-model line.

Undisc. ctxMar 16, 2023

ERNIE 3.0 Titan

Retired
BaiduProprietary

Baidu's 260B-parameter ERNIE 3.0 Titan model, an early Chinese frontier-scale language model.

Dense260B ctxDec 8, 2021