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Company
Baidu
Chinese search and cloud company that makes the ERNIE models behind the ERNIE Bot assistant, plus PaddlePaddle and PaddleOCR.
- Country
- China
- Founded
- 2000
- Headquarters
- Beijing
- Type
- Big tech
- Open weights
- Mixed
- Website
- https://www.baidu.com
ERNIE
Language
- ERNIE 5.18 May 2026Current
- ERNIE 5.0Nov 2025Legacy
- ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking8 Sep 2025CurrentOpen weights
- ERNIE-4.5-0.3B30 Jun 2025CurrentOpen weights
- ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B30 Jun 2025LegacyOpen weights
- ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B30 Jun 2025CurrentOpen weights
- ERNIE 4.5 TurboApr 2025Legacy
- ERNIE 4.516 Mar 2025Legacy
- ERNIE 4.0 TurboJun 2024Retired
- ERNIE 4.017 Oct 2023Retired
- ERNIE 3.5Jun 2023Retired
- ERNIE 3.0 (ERNIE Bot launch)16 Mar 2023Retired
ERNIE X
Reasoning-only
- ERNIE X1 TurboApr 2025Legacy
- ERNIE X116 Mar 2025Retired
ERNIE-Image
Image generation
- ERNIE-Image15 Apr 2026CurrentOpen weights
ERNIE-VL
Vision-language
- ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking11 Nov 2025CurrentOpen weights
- ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B30 Jun 2025LegacyOpen weights
- ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B30 Jun 2025CurrentOpen weights
PaddleOCR
OCR document
- Qianfan-OCRMar 2026CurrentOpen weights
- PaddleOCR-VL-1.529 Jan 2026CurrentOpen weights
- PaddleOCR-VL16 Oct 2025LegacyOpen weights
- PP-OCRv5May 2025CurrentOpen weights
Qianfan-VL
Vision-language
- Qianfan-VL-3BSep 2025CurrentOpen weights
- Qianfan-VL-70BSep 2025CurrentOpen weights
- Qianfan-VL-8BSep 2025CurrentOpen weights