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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.

Baidu has released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, a model with 280 billion total parameters, 14 billion active per token, and a 1 million token context window. It is listed at $0.28 per 1M input tokens and $1.13 per 1M output tokens on OpenRouter via Baidu Qianfan.

Baidu has released Qianfan-OCR-Fast, a multimodal model specialized for optical character recognition tasks. The model offers a 66,000 token context window and is priced at $0.68 per 1M input tokens and $2.81 per 1M output tokens.