Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with a $50M commercial line in the fine print

Baidu published the 280B-parameter pre-training checkpoint on November 5th, 2026, with 14B active parameters, a 1M-token inference claim, and tighter custom terms than ERNIE 4.5.

RuntimeWire · 2026-11-05T10:09:24.074Z