This is awesome. ERNIE seems more powerful than Qwen3.8-27B and Deepseek-v4-Flash, which AFAIK are currently the best base models... it'll be very interesting to experiment with when it hits OpenCode. Base models are also excellent for businesses who run models locally, as they can be trained in various house rules and house styles.
They're comparing it to Deepseek-v4-Flash, not 4.1 and not the 4.1 1017 update, so essentially two versions behind the latest version of Deepseek Flash.
Am I the only one to feel sad that the name means "Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration", rather than being a homage to a very famous 1950s random number generator?
A chunk better than Deepseek 1017, at half the parameter count, BUT it's only a base model, not finetuned to follow instructions.
Strange to release a model in this state. OpenAI is also "probably" releasing new models (sources within OpenAI talking about Sol 6.2 and the like). We must be getting really close to the Qwen4 releases.
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dropped is the worst word in this context because it can both mean ‘released’ or ‘terminated/ended’
Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base = Baidu released a new version of their software
Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base = Baidu ended the support of their software
This is awesome. ERNIE seems more powerful than Qwen3.8-27B and Deepseek-v4-Flash, which AFAIK are currently the best base models... it'll be very interesting to experiment with when it hits OpenCode. Base models are also excellent for businesses who run models locally, as they can be trained in various house rules and house styles.
They're comparing it to Deepseek-v4-Flash, not 4.1 and not the 4.1 1017 update, so essentially two versions behind the latest version of Deepseek Flash.
Qwen3.8-27B has no base model version in the wild that I can see?
ERNIE feels old, like BERT. They either need a rebrand or fully embrace retro-dawn-of-ML vibes
I'd try DONALD for sure, if I wanted to kill a project.
Make AI Great Again?
But they didn't give a DONALD.
Am I the only one to feel sad that the name means "Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration", rather than being a homage to a very famous 1950s random number generator?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bonds#ERNIE
anyone tried this? is it good?
It's not instruction finetuned, so no, it's not good to use for anything like coding agents.
TLDR: Ernie 5.5 Flash base 280B params 14B active
A chunk better than Deepseek 1017, at half the parameter count, BUT it's only a base model, not finetuned to follow instructions.
Strange to release a model in this state. OpenAI is also "probably" releasing new models (sources within OpenAI talking about Sol 6.2 and the like). We must be getting really close to the Qwen4 releases.
I believe they compare to DSv4, not DSv4.1 1017.
Specifically V4-Flash-Base from April.