ER
Foundation Models
Ernie (Baidu)
Baidu's flagship Ernie models powering its AI products
Ernie (Wenxin) is Baidu's large-model family, one of the earliest Chinese foundation models to market. The Ernie 5 generation includes an omni-modal model and a leaner, cheaper-to-train text flagship, powering Baidu's Ernie Bot assistant and enterprise cloud.
Models
- ERNIE 5.1 — Flagship text model, efficient MoE (2026)💬 Text🧮 Reasoning
- ERNIE 5.0 — Omni-modal model: text, image, audio, video👁️ Multimodal🖼️ Image🎙️ Audio🎬 Video
- Ernie Bot — Consumer AI assistant💬 Text👁️ Multimodal
Highlights
- Among the first Chinese foundation models released to the public
- Ernie assistant surpassed 200M monthly active users (2026)
Information compiled from public sources; refer to the company's official website for authoritative details.