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ERNIE 5.1

ERNIE 5.1 is an API-only (closed weights) language model from Baidu, released May 9, 2026. Its makers disclosed about 800B parameters.

Today, we officially release ERNIE 5.1. While inheriting the pre-training foundation of ERNIE 5.0, it compresses total parameters to approximately one-third and active parameters to approximately one-half, achieving leading foundational performance at its model scale using only about 6% of the pre-training cost of …

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Lab
Baidu
Released
May 9, 2026
Weights
API-only (closed weights)
Parameters
800B disclosed
Context
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Price / M tokens
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Epoch ECI
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Benchmark results

Epoch AI has not published results for ERNIE 5.1 yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.

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