Baidu's advanced AI model family
ERNIE is a suite of AI models developed by Baidu, including the ERNIE 5.1 and ERNIE 5.0 foundation models. ERNIE 5.1 achieves leading performance at only 6% of the pre-training cost of comparable models, ranking first in China on the Arena Search Arena. ERNIE 5.0 is a 2.4 trillion-parameter unified multimodal model integrating text, image, video, and audio. The family also includes ERNIE-Image for text-to-image generation and PaddleOCR-VL for document parsing.
Published 2026-08-08 · Links checked 2026-09-19