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ERNIE Lightning

Baidu AI🇨🇳 China
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Baidu released ERNIE Lightning, a deep-thinking model first built for Baidu Search, on its Qianfan platform with APIs open to enterprise customers and partners. Baidu says it uses BSA sparse attention and a fast-thinking/slow-thinking looping scheme, and cuts inference engine cost by more than 30% with Kunlunxin co-optimization.

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Baidu launches ERNIE Lightning reasoning model and ERNIE-Wizshot-ME video model on Qianfan

Baidu released ERNIE Lightning, a deep-thinking model built first for Baidu Search, and ERNIE-Wizshot-ME, an expressive video model, at Baidu World 2026 on November 12. Both are live on Baidu AI Cloud's Qianfan platform with APIs open to enterprise customers and partners. Baidu has not published benchmarks, parameter counts or context lengths for either.

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