Baidu ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview: 280B MoE, 1M context, builds playable games from design docs
LearnWithBishal · x · 2026-11-12
Baidu launched ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview. The author walked through its game-building demo: from full game design documents it produced nearly 100 playable mobile games across genres (tower defence, racing, card RPG, interactive stories), built with Cocos, Unity, LayaAir, PixiJS and native Canvas 2D.
Highlights:
- Self-testing: simulated players, state-space search and level replays check level completability and gameplay balance
- Genre-tailored character names, boss dialogue, branching storylines and level names
- Specs: 280B total params with 14B active per token, 1M-token context, 200+ tokens/s generation
- Knowledge work across 40+ file types; 1,000+ creative skills
- Code Arena WebDev score of 1,668, trending toward #2 among open models, ahead of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (1,664) and Kimi K3 Max (1,658)
API live on Baidu's Qianfan platform; weights to be open-sourced before November 25.
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