Baidu open-sources 280B-parameter ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base model

Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, an open-source foundation model with 280 billion parameters in a mixture-of-experts architecture, pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens. It ships without fine-tuning so developers can customize it freely.

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