# Ernie: what I've logged

> Ernie comes up in 2 posts of my AI log, from September 2025 to November 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The sources come from Baidu, filed under open weights, agents and coding and image, video, world.

## Items

1. **ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base** (Baidu, 4 Nov 2026): A sparse mixture-of-experts base checkpoint with 280B total and 14B active parameters, pre-trained on 33.5T tokens, with a 128K training context and 1M for fine-tuning and inference. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/baidu/ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-11-05-ernie-5-5-flash-phonon-cuda-13-5-luma-mcp#item-1)
2. **ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking** (Baidu, 8 Sept 2025): A small mixture-of-experts reasoning model with tool use and a 128K context, under Apache 2.0. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/baidu/ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-08-week-in-ai#item-3)

## Posts

- 2026-11-05 [ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, Phonon TTS, CUDA 13.5, Luma MCP](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-11-05-ernie-5-5-flash-phonon-cuda-13-5-luma-mcp)
- 2025-09-08 [Claude makes files, Qwen3-Next goes sparse, ERNIE 4.5 Thinking](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-08-week-in-ai)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/ernie