Baidu ERNIE Models

ERNIE is Baidu’s family of foundation models for language, multimodal understanding, reasoning, search-grounded generation, and agent applications. The family is optimized for Chinese-language knowledge and powers Baidu’s consumer assistant and enterprise AI services. Recent ERNIE generations include native omni-modal models and smaller deployment options, while selected model weights are released openly. Developers can access ERNIE through Baidu AI Cloud’s model and application platform.