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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by speedping on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:16AM (#50377420)
ERNIE feels old, like BERT. They either need a rebrand or fully embrace retro-dawn-of-ML vibes
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by NSUserDefaults on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:17AM (#50377429)
I'd try DONALD for sure, if I wanted to kill a project.
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by ahoka on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:36AM (#50377544)
But they didn't give a DONALD.
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by yehoshuapw on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:42AM (#50377591)
Make AI Great Again?
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by selectodude on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:44AM (#50377607)
SI*
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by throwaw12 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:04AM (#50377743)
Trump just realised that he can't use MAGA for Making SI Great Again, probably giving an executive order to reverse SI to AI again, to be able to claim Make AI Great Again
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by swingboy on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:15AM (#50377817)
I am PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE that SI will be America’s 51st STATE and will be RENAMED to “American Intelligence”! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by Gigachad on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:40AM (#50378409)
Lake Intelligence
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by pezezin on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:54AM (#50378525)
Yes?
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by stymaar on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:13AM (#50378692)
Curious he didn't rename it American Intelligence instead.
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by bmlzootown on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:58AM (#50379128)
I threw up a little reading that. As an American, even I know that's an oxymoron.
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by locknitpicker on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:04AM (#50377744)
> I'd try DONALD for sure, if I wanted to kill a project.

The current version is threatening to veto all my prompts.

Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by rob74 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:29AM (#50377902)
...and when it makes a mistake, it blames anything or anyone else but itself, or insists that what it did is perfect the way it is and that it's still the smartest model in the world?
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by lofties on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:54AM (#50377673)
BERT models are still amazing for what they do. Even the latest JEV/KEV/SEV/BEV/REV/TREV models can't beat a well-trained BERT.
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by throwaw12 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:03AM (#50377734)
do you have examples of open weight BERT models from hugging face which are trained for specific use cases?
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by rockinghigh on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:27PM (#50382572)
For these small models, you would fine tune them on your use case. https://huggingface.co/transformers/v4.8.2/training.html
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by endymi0n on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:27AM (#50380293)
hehe, so much in a name... just today I told Claude off for recommending me a BERT model for voice identification and it told me it was actually SOTA 2025!

https://arxiv.org/html/2510.04213v1

Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by josh-wrale on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:05AM (#50377745)
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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by Oarch on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:24AM (#50378795)
I'd like to see Big Bird drop his weights next
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by josh-wrale on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:37AM (#50378912)
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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by cubefox on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:00PM (#50381495)
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by kotaKat on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:38AM (#50379630)
... My mind wandered to the old Xbox font exploits. Bert & Ernie Reloaded!

http://archiv.sega-dc.de/phoenix.maxconsole.net/docs/bertern...

Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by rwmj on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:59AM (#50378116)