ERNIE 5.0
ERNIE 5.0 is Baidu’s unified multimodal foundation model, integrating text, images, video, and audio in an autoregressive architecture. It has 2.4T total parameters and was trained from scratch with sparse expert computation and elastic sub-model training. Public preview checkpoints appeared in November 2025, followed by an upgraded release in January and a February technical report. This page groups routine preview snapshots and later service revisions under the major family identity. Public weights are not offered.
2025-11
2.4T
Elastic sparse Mixture of Experts
Proprietary
Specifications
- Parameters
- 2.4T
- Architecture
- Elastic sparse Mixture of Experts
- License
- Proprietary
- Type
- multimodal
- Modalities
- textimagevideoaudio
Benchmark Scores
Advanced Specifications
- Model Family
- ERNIE
- API Access
- Not Available
- Chat Interface
- Available
- Multilingual Support
- Yes
Capabilities & Limitations
- Capabilities
- language generationreasoningmultimodal understanding
- Known Limitations
- Weights are not publicly downloadableModality support differs between checkpoints and endpointsModel outputs require factual verification
- Notable Use Cases
- Chinese and English assistantsdocument understandingagent research