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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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