Baidu ships ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview with 280B parameters on a 14B active path
The 280B model activates 14B parameters per token, claims a 1M-token context and 200 tokens per second, and is free on OpenRouter ahead of its weights release.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
Baidu is testing whether a 280B model with only 14B active parameters can deliver agent-grade coding and knowledge work at small-model inference cost. The November 25th Apache 2.0 weights release will let developers verify the speed, context, and benchmark claims outside Baidu's hosted API.
The 280B model activates 14B parameters per token, claims a 1M-token context and 200 tokens per second, and is free on OpenRouter ahead of its weights release.
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