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2025-11-12

Baidu's latest ERNIE model brings visual reasoning to open-source AI

The Chinese search and Internet company Baidu presents the latest version of its chatbot Ernie, which is supposed to deliver significantly better results than before. It also gets support for plugins.


Baidu has launched ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, a new AI model that can process images as part of its reasoning process.


The article Baidu's latest ERNIE model brings visual reasoning to open-source AI ap [...]

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