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Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model
The Decoder · By Matthias Bastian ·

The Brief
- Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base as an open-source foundation model.
- The model is a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens.
- It is shipped without fine-tuning, so developers can adapt it for their own purposes.
Why it matters
Developers get a large open-source base model that they can fine-tune and deploy without the constraints of a fine-tuned or hosted release.
Who’s affected
- Developers and teams looking for open-source foundation models to fine-tune
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
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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…