Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
by input_sh on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:37AM
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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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DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is twice the size of this and difficult to run locally. Makes more sense to compare it to DS4F.
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.
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
by segmondy on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:25AM
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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.
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
by input_sh on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:32AM
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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.
Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
by lcampbell on Thursday November 05, 2026 @02:03PM
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> 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.