ERNIE
ENT-00000539 · AI Model

ERNIE

ERNIE is Baidu’s foundation-model family, whose 2026 generation includes ERNIE 5.0, a 2.4T unified multimodal model, and ERNIE 5.1, a more compact model with strengthened reasoning and agentic capabilities.

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Overview

ERNIE is Baidu’s foundation-model lineage. The family’s 2026 evolution moved to ERNIE 5.0 in February with unified text, image, video and audio modeling, then to ERNIE 5.1 in May with substantially reduced model size, stronger foundation capabilities and scaled agentic post-training.

Timeline

  1. 2019Initial model publication or release

    ERNIE entered the documented public record in 2019. This event is retained at the precision supported by the Entry’s reviewed source history.

  2. 2026-02-06ERNIE 5.0 released

    Baidu released ERNIE 5.0, a 2.4T unified multimodal foundation model.

  3. 2026-05-09ERNIE 5.1 released

    Baidu released ERNIE 5.1 with reduced scale, improved foundational performance and agentic post-training.

Capabilities

Large-language-model generation and reasoningUnified multimodal text/image/video/audio processing in ERNIE 5.0Agentic reasoning and decision-oriented post-training in ERNIE 5.1Chinese and multilingual knowledge tasksIntegration with Baidu AI products and APIs

Known limitations

Capabilities differ substantially by ERNIE generation and deployment.Baidu-hosted product features should not be assumed for every model checkpoint.Parameter counts and benchmarks are version-specific.
Technical and structured detail

Technical description

Current family-level record for Baidu ERNIE. ERNIE 5.0 uses a unified autoregressive multimodal framework at 2.4T parameters; ERNIE 5.1 inherits the pretraining foundation while compressing scale and emphasizing agentic reinforcement learning and reasoning. The Entry represents the family, not one checkpoint.

Controlled tags

BaiduFoundation Model
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Baidu

Baidu is the organization or ecosystem associated with ERNIE.

Registry CategoryOutgoing
Foundation Models

Model-level entity connected to the foundation-model layer of the registry.

Underlying model familyIncoming
ERNIE Bot

ERNIE Bot is powered by Baidu’s evolving ERNIE model family.

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