Baidu's ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview: 280B/14B MoE, 1M Context, 200+ Tokens/sec, Weights by Nov 25

jacek2023 · reddit · 2026-11-11

Baidu officially announced ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, the latest open-weight foundation model in the ERNIE family, built on a new architecture designed for efficient inference. Baidu claims stronger coding, 3D modeling, knowledge work and content creation, with competitive scores on Terminal-Bench and AutomationBench.

Key specs: 280B total parameters with 14B active per token (MoE), a 1M-token context window, and generation speed above 200 tokens/sec. Model weights will be released by November 25; the Reddit poster says full release lands in about two weeks.

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