Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base

Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by A_D_E_P_T on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:59AM (#50377311)

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.

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by input_sh on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:37AM (#50377548)

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.

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by Tepix on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:23AM (#50377866)

DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is twice the size of this and difficult to run locally. Makes more sense to compare it to DS4F.

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by ggcr on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:24AM (#50377867)

This is base model. They are comparing against the DeepSeek-V4 *Base* model from April. DeepSeek-V4.1 is the instruct-tuned version of that same V4 base.

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by segmondy on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:25AM (#50379451)

Do you understand that this is a base model? It means you are supposed to take it and post train it. It's much smaller than DeepSeek-v4-Flash, that's already a plus, you compare base to base. 4.1 and 4.1-1017 are trained from the base model.

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by input_sh on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:32AM (#50381175)

I understand why you might think so, as calling it v4.1 does imply that, but no, 4.1 was built from scratch.

Different architecture, v4 is text-only while v4.1 is multimodal and so on.

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by lcampbell on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:03PM (#50382998)

> v4 is text-only

To be a pedant, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp was a further checkpoint of the V4.0 lineage that supported image input. It lost a few benchmark points compared to the previous 0731 checkpoint so a lot of people skipped it. Completely unrelated to V4.1 though.

I wish labs used more reasonable naming schemes.

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by irthomasthomas on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:38AM (#50377555)

Qwen3.8-27B has no base model version in the wild that I can see?

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by speedgoose on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:17AM (#50377827)

Isn’t the latest Qwen 3 public base model… Qwen 3?

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by stymaar on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:15AM (#50378714)

Despite the naming Qwen3 and Qwen3.5+ have very little in common in terms of architecture. (And neither does 3.8-Flash-next …)

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by halJordan on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:26PM (#50388193)

Baidu, Tencent, all the second rate Chinese labs' models are all benchmaxxed to hell. The main goal of these releases is to show benchmarks to their govt minders

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by A_D_E_P_T on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:01AM (#50390390)

Have you tried Xiaomi's MiMo v2.6? It's remarkably good -- and very weird/idiosyncratic. (For instance, it can compose MIDI-style music directly via the chat app, and it follows instructions much more closely than any other music model. AFAIK nothing else does this.)

I haven't had much experience with ERNIE, but I've been using various different (Chinese) base models of late, and I'm excited to try it.

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