Releases
18 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
May 20261
May 9, 2026
ERNIE 5.1 releasedModel release
Baidu released a more compact flagship model with stronger agents, reasoning and creative abilities.
April 20261
Apr 15, 2026
ERNIE-Image releasedOpen weights
Baidu released an open-weight 8B DiT text-to-image model.
February 20261
Feb 6, 2026
ERNIE 5.0 officially releasedModel release
Baidu released a 2.4T-parameter unified model trained jointly across text, image, video and audio.
January 20261
Jan 29, 2026
PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 releasedOpen weights
Baidu released an upgraded 0.9B document-parsing vision-language model.
November 20251
Nov 11, 2025
ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B Thinking releasedOpen weights
Baidu released a sparse multimodal reasoning model activating only 3B parameters.
October 20251
Oct 16, 2025
PaddleOCR-VL releasedOpen weights
Baidu released a compact multilingual vision-language model for document parsing.
September 20251
Sep 12, 2025
ERNIE 4.5 receives PLAS sparse-attention updateModel update
Baidu introduced a sparse-attention inference update for faster long-context performance.
June 20251
Jun 30, 2025
ERNIE 4.5 family open weights releasedOpen weights
Baidu open-sourced ten ERNIE 4.5 variants spanning dense and mixture-of-experts text and vision-language models.
April 20252
Apr 25, 2025
ERNIE X1 Turbo launchesModel release
Baidu released an enhanced and lower-cost reasoning model.
Apr 25, 2025
ERNIE 4.5 Turbo launchesModel release
Baidu released an enhanced ERNIE 4.5 with improved performance and lower pricing.
March 20252
Mar 16, 2025
ERNIE X1 reasoning model launchesModel release
Baidu released its first deep-thinking reasoning model.
Mar 16, 2025
ERNIE 4.5 launchesModel release
Baidu released its first flagship native multimodal foundation model.
June 20241
Jun 28, 2024
ERNIE 4.0 Turbo launchesModel release
Baidu released a faster and more capable version of ERNIE 4.0.
May 20241
May 15, 2024
Apollo ADFM introducedModel release
Baidu introduced its Autonomous Driving Foundation Model for Level 4 driving systems.
October 20231
Oct 17, 2023
ERNIE 4.0 launchesModel release
Baidu launched ERNIE 4.0 with upgraded comprehension, reasoning, generation and memory.
May 20231
May 2023
ERNIE 3.5 launchesModel release
Baidu introduced ERNIE 3.5 as the new foundation model powering ERNIE Bot.
March 20191
Mar 16, 2019
ERNIE 1.0 releasedModel release
Baidu released its first knowledge-enhanced language representation model.
September 20161
Sep 2016
PaddlePaddle open-sourcedOpen weights
Baidu opened PaddlePaddle to the global developer community for deep learning, vision, speech and NLP.

