Baidu Ships ERNIE 5.0: A 2.4-Trillion Parameter MoE Model That Almost No One Outside China Will Notice

Baidu launched ERNIE 5.0 as a natively omni-modal model with 2.4 trillion parameters using mixture-of-experts — a frontier-class release that highlights the widening gap between Chinese and Western AI discourse.

Baidu officially launched ERNIE 5.0, describing it as a "native omni-modal large model" with 2.4 trillion parameters using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, as @Baidu_Inc announced. By parameter count and architecture, this places ERNIE 5.0 among the largest publicly acknowledged models in the world.

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