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The latest Baidu news, : Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base for training with 280B parameters.

9 stories mentioning Baidu since 23 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. Follow to see new ones on your front page.

  1. Research new

    Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base for training with 280B parameters

    Baidu’s ERNIE team released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base on November 5, 2026, offering downloadable weights for a text-only mixture-of-experts model. The model has 280 billion total parameters and 14 billion activated per…

    3 sources
    MarkTechPostThe DecoderUnite.AI
  2. Business & Funding new

    Alphabet reports Waymo revenue of $372 million, loss of $2.05 billion

    Alphabet disclosed in its third-quarter earnings report that its Other Bets segment, which includes Waymo and Isomorphic, generated $372 million in revenue. This figure represents a year-over-year increase of 8% but…

    1 source
    CNBC Technology
  3. Society & Work new

    Author fakes optical soliton paper with AI tools, IEEE catches it

    A journalist used free AI tools—ChatGPT and Gemini—to generate a fake academic paper on optical solitons, their Ph.D. topic, and submitted it to IEEE Access for review. The experiment tested how easily AI-generated…

    1 source HN 47
    IEEE Spectrum AI
  4. Baidu releases Unlimited-OCR-2 with unlimited-horizon parsing via SR-SWA

    Baidu released Unlimited-OCR-2 on October 27, 2026, introducing Sparse Reference Sliding Window Attention (SR-SWA) that compresses text-visual attention interactions to a fixed-size set of working references such as…

    1 source primary source
    huggingface.co
  5. Policy & Regulation new

    UK investigates Beijing-backed AI hacking spree

    Britain's National Cyber Security Centre is urgently investigating a global hacking campaign attributed to a Beijing-backed group called "Storm-0940". The investigation, conducted with Microsoft and other partners,…

    1 source
    yahoo.com
  6. Claude shows language‑dependent brand recommendations in travel queries

    The author notes that many users in non‑English speaking regions, such as Persian‑speaking residents of Los Angeles County, are unlikely to switch to English when interacting with AI. Anthropic published a July report…

    1 source
    Search Engine Journal
  7. SemiAnalysis reports Chinese AI labs rarely publish safety results

    SemiAnalysis published a detailed analysis on 8 October 2026, arguing that while China’s government rhetoric on AI safety is increasingly explicit, its actual regulatory and industry practices prioritize speed over…

    1 source
    SemiAnalysis
  8. Hardware & Compute new

    SemiAnalysis reveals China’s 24GW datacenter capacity, surpassing EMEA

    China’s datacenter capacity now exceeds 24 gigawatts, surpassing EMEA and the rest of Asia combined, according to SemiAnalysis’ new China Datacenter Model. The report tracks over 1,000 facilities across 60+ operators,…

    1 source
    SemiAnalysis
  9. Baidu adds AI Traffic Analysis dashboard to webmaster tools

    Baidu has introduced an AI Traffic Analysis section in its webmaster tools, visible since mid‑September. The dashboard tracks four metrics—AI citations, AI impressions, AI clicks, and AI CTR (clicks divided by…

    1 source
    Search Engine Journal

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As of 5 November 2026: Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base for training with 280B parameters. Baidu’s ERNIE team released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base on November 5, 2026, offering downloadable weights for a text-only mixture-of-experts model.

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