Baidu ERNIE 4.5 Unveiled: Revolutionizing Multimodal AI with 10 Open-Source Models and 424B Parameters

Baidu ERNIE 4.5: A New Era in Multimodal AI with 10 Open-Source Models The Landmark Release: 424B Parameters Redefining Scale Visual representation of multimodal AI architecture (Credit: Pexels) Baidu Research has unveiled the ERNIE 4.5 model family – a comprehensive suite of 10 openly accessible AI models with parameter counts spanning from 0.3B to 424B. This release establishes new industry benchmarks in multimodal understanding and generation capabilities. The collection comprises three distinct categories: 1. Large Language Models (LLMs) ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B-Base (300 billion parameters) ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Base (21 billion parameters) 2. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) ERNIE-4.5-VL-424B-A47B-Base (424 billion parameters – largest in family) ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Base (28 …