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Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model

11.05

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.

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