Baidu's ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview: 280B Params, 14B Active, Eyes #2 Open Spot on Code Arena

Baidu_Inc · x · 2026-11-12

Baidu highlighted that ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview — a sparse model with 280B total parameters and just 14B active per token — is trending toward the #2 open-model spot on Code Arena: WebDev at 1668 points, above DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1664) and Kimi K3 (1658), on par with Qwen3.8-Max (1670). Weights will be open-sourced under Apache 2.0 soon.

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