Baidu's ERNIE AI Stuns Rivals, Outperforming GPT & Gemini in Benchmarks
Baidu has launched ERNIE 4.5, a multimodal AI model designed to unlock insights from diverse enterprise data beyond text, excelling in areas like engineering schematics and video analysis. Outperforming competitors like GPT and Gemini on key benchmarks, this lightweight model focuses on efficiency and empowers "multimodal agents" to reason and act, moving enterprise AI towards automation. Its commercial availability under an Apache 2.0 license marks a significant step, though it requires substantial GPU infrastructure.Uche Emeka • AI • 7 months ago • 1 minute read •

Baidu has introduced its latest ERNIE model, ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, a super-efficient multimodal AI designed to address the significant challenge of extracting valuable insights from non-text enterprise data. While many AI models focus primarily on textual information, a vast amount of critical intelligence often remains locked within diverse formats such as engineering schematics, factory-floor video feeds, medical scans, and logistics dashboards. ERNIE 4.5 is specifically engineered to bridge this gap, offering a comprehensive solution for businesses seeking to leverage these varied data types.
A key architectural feature of ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking is its
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