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Baidu (ERNIE)

China's largest search company powers ERNIE Bot — the nation's most-used AI assistant.

3
Models tracked
2000
Founded
ERNIE 4.0 Turbo
Flagship model
Beijing
HQ
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About

About Baidu (ERNIE)

Baidu, China's largest search engine with 1.4 billion monthly active users, has been developing large language models since 2019 through the ERNIE (Enhanced Representation from Knowledge Integration) programme. ERNIE 4.0 Turbo is Baidu's flagship model, integrated into the Wenxin (文心一言) platform and deeply connected with Baidu Search's real-time knowledge graph. The ERNIE series excels at Chinese-language understanding and generation.

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Key highlights

  • Integrated with Baidu Search for real-time Chinese knowledge grounding

  • ERNIE 4.0 Turbo is the benchmark leader for Chinese-language understanding

  • Available on Baidu Qianfan platform with enterprise-grade SLAs

  • ERNIE Speed-128K processes entire books in a single context window

  • Deep integration into Baidu products used by over 1.4B monthly active users

Models

3 models tracked

Context windows, pricing, capabilities, and API identifiers — everything you need to choose the right model for your workload.

Flagship

ERNIE 4.0 Turbo

2024

8Kcontext
TextVisionCodeReasoning

Baidu's most capable flagship model. Deep integration with Baidu's knowledge graph provides exceptional Chinese-language factual accuracy and real-time information access.

  • State-of-the-art Chinese NLP
  • Real-time Baidu Search grounding
  • Advanced reasoning
  • Rich knowledge base
ernie-4.0-turbo-8k

ERNIE Speed-128K

2024

128Kcontext
Text

A fast ERNIE model with 128K context for long Chinese document processing. Optimised for speed and throughput in production workloads.

  • 128K context
  • Fast inference
  • Long document processing
  • Cost-efficient
ernie-speed-128k

ERNIE Lite

2024

8Kcontext
Text

The most cost-efficient ERNIE model. Designed for high-volume Chinese text classification, extraction, and summarisation at minimal cost.

  • Extremely low cost
  • High throughput
  • Basic NLP tasks
  • Classification & extraction
ernie-lite-8k

Use Cases

What Baidu (ERNIE) is best for

Each provider has specialisms shaped by their architecture decisions, training data, and API design. Here is where Baidu (ERNIE) performs best.

Chinese-language enterprise applications
Real-time Chinese knowledge retrieval
Legal document analysis in Chinese
Customer service for Chinese markets
Content generation in Chinese

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