
Foundation Models
Ernie (Baidu)
文心一言
Baidu's flagship Ernie models powering its AI products
- Headquarters
- Beijing, China
- Region
- Beijing
- Founded
- 2019
- Stage
- Undisclosed
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Overview
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.
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Products
3ERNIE 5.1
Flagship text model, efficient MoE (2026)
ERNIE 5.0
Omni-modal model: text, image, audio, video
Ernie Bot
Consumer AI assistant
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Highlights
2- 01Among the first Chinese foundation models released to the public
- 02Ernie assistant surpassed 200M monthly active users (2026)
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People
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1Information compiled from public sources; refer to the company's official website for authoritative details.

