Baidu shipped a base model, not a chatbot you can ping
ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base is a 280-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts checkpoint, 14 billion active, stopped before instruction tuning. The license does not cover the EU, the UK, or South Korea. Check the map before the model card gets you excited.
- Verdict
- Watch Promising, but something is missing: access, pricing, or proof.
- For
- teams outside the EU, the UK, and South Korea who run base checkpoints
- Why it matters
- This is a base model stopped before instruction tuning, and the license skips those three regions.
- Next check
- Recheck the license map before you download it for a region on that list.
- Published
- Filed
- By
- The Loaded Tokens desk
- Topic
- Models
- Sources
- Baidu ERNIE
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