Baidu's ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview lands free on OpenRouter: 280B MoE with 1M context at 200 tok/s
Baidu_Inc · x · 2026-11-11
Baidu officially released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, available for free on OpenRouter. Key specs of the open-weight MoE model:
- 280B total parameters, 14B activated per token
- 1M token context window
- Generation speed above 200 tokens/second
- Competitive scores on Terminal-Bench, AutomationBench and other benchmarks
- Gains in coding, agentic capabilities, knowledge work, 3D modeling and deep research
- OpenAI-compatible API; currently unavailable in the EU
A zero-cost way for developers to try a large MoE model optimized for efficient inference.
Related event: Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, Open-Sourcing November 25(9 posts)→
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