Baidu serves ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview while weights remain promised
Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, a 280-billion-parameter mixture model with 14 billion active parameters and a one-million-token context. The API is live on Qianfan; Baidu says Apache-2.0 weights will follow but has not published them yet.
Why it matters: The release adds a long-context Chinese model option for coding, 3D and knowledge work, but separates usable hosted access from a future open-weight promise. Teams should evaluate the API they can call today rather than plan around unreleased files.