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Nov 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Baidu Open-Sources ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: Efficient 280B MoE for Agents

Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, a 280B sparse MoE model with 14B activated parameters, 128K training context extended to 1M at inference, featuring hybrid sparse attention (MLA+HCA), multi-router MoE, and ECHO future-token prediction, achieving SOTA benchmarks against DeepSeek-V4-Flash and other peers.