This is awesome. ERNIE seems more powerful than Qwen3.8-27B and Deepseek-v4-Flash, which AFAIK are currently the best base models... it'll be very interesting to experiment with when it hits OpenCode. Base models are also excellent for businesses who run models locally, as they can be trained in various house rules and house styles.
speedping 19 minutes ago [-]
ERNIE feels old, like BERT. They either need a rebrand or fully embrace retro-dawn-of-ML vibes
NSUserDefaults 18 minutes ago [-]
I'd try DONALD for sure, if I wanted to kill a project.
roryirvine 11 minutes ago [-]
Am I the only one to feel sad that the name means "Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration", rather than being a homage to a very famous 1950s random number generator?
It's not instruction finetuned, so no, it's not good to use for anything like coding agents.
spwa4 33 minutes ago [-]
TLDR: Ernie 5.5 Flash base 280B params 14B active
A chunk better than Deepseek 1017, at half the parameter count, BUT it's only a base model, not finetuned to follow instructions.
Strange to release a model in this state. OpenAI is also "probably" releasing new models (sources within OpenAI talking about Sol 6.2 and the like). We must be getting really close to the Qwen4 releases.
v9v 22 minutes ago [-]
I believe they compare to DSv4, not DSv4.1 1017.
wolttam 56 seconds ago [-]
Specifically V4-Flash-Base from April.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bonds#ERNIE
A chunk better than Deepseek 1017, at half the parameter count, BUT it's only a base model, not finetuned to follow instructions.
Strange to release a model in this state. OpenAI is also "probably" releasing new models (sources within OpenAI talking about Sol 6.2 and the like). We must be getting really close to the Qwen4 releases.