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...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?
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.
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.
> so essentially two versions behind the latest version of Deepseek Flash
No. This is a base model and are comparing against other base models. They compare against the DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Base model from April. DeepSeek-V4.1 is instruct-tuned.
The numbers they are reporting are pretty awesome ngl. Let's see how the post-training goes.
Am I the only one to feel sad that the name means "Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration", rather than being a homage to a very famous 1950s random number generator?
It's a homage to BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), Google's influential 2018 Transformer model that wasn't autoregressive. https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805v2
A chunk better than Deepseek 1017, at half the parameter count, BUT it's only a base model, not finetuned to follow instructions.
Strange to release a model in this state. OpenAI is also "probably" releasing new models (sources within OpenAI talking about Sol 6.2 and the like). We must be getting really close to the Qwen4 releases.
The current version is threatening to veto all my prompts.
No. This is a base model and are comparing against other base models. They compare against the DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Base model from April. DeepSeek-V4.1 is instruct-tuned.
The numbers they are reporting are pretty awesome ngl. Let's see how the post-training goes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bonds#ERNIE
How do I look Ernie? ... with your eyes, Bert.
dropped is the worst word in this context because it can both mean ‘released’ or ‘terminated/ended’
Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base = Baidu released a new version of their software
Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base = Baidu ended the support of their software
A chunk better than Deepseek 1017, at half the parameter count, BUT it's only a base model, not finetuned to follow instructions.
Strange to release a model in this state. OpenAI is also "probably" releasing new models (sources within OpenAI talking about Sol 6.2 and the like). We must be getting really close to the Qwen4 releases.
No, they explain why they do it.