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ERNIE Blog
Company blog · ernie.baidu.com/blogaiprogramming
ERNIE Blog is the company blog at ernie.baidu.com, writing about ai and programming. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Ernie 5.1 Preview”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Baidu's ERNIE blog, linked by HN commenters for its research publications, such as the PaddleOCR-VL document-parsing model paper. Other comments cite Baidu's models as examples in discussions of Chinese AI.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Ernie 5.1 Preview4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-03
- Baidu: The Open Source Release of the Ernie 4.5 Model Family2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-30
What Hacker News says?
The GPT-OSS-120B release was pretty decent and you could run it on vLLM, Ollama and a bunch of other stuff on day one, despite MXFP4, are you not entertained? I mean, it's even close to GPT-5 mini in some benchmarks: https://llm-stats.com/ As for the Chinese models, yes, there are quite a few good ones. For programming and development, my current daily driver is the Qwen3 Coder 480B model: https://qwen3lm.com/ I hav…
Comment linking /blog/posts/ernie4.5/
on “Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML”Submitted Baidu: The Open Source Release of the Ernie 4.5 Model Family as a story · 9 points
HN discussionOriginal title: PaddleOCR-VL: Boosting Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Ultra-Compact Vision-Language Model Direct link to PDF: https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/publication/PaddleOCR-VL_Techni... Baidu claims state of the art performance on their own OmniDocBench (although some recent models like GPT-5 and Qwen3 are not evaluated) and strong results on olmOCR-Bench and Ocean-OCR-Bench.
Comment linking /blog/publication/PaddleOCR-VL_Technical_Report.pdf
on “PaddleOCR-VL: Boosting Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Compact VLM”Submitted Ernie 5.1 Preview as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDo Chinese have closed weight models? Baidu has https://ernie.baidu.com/ open weight model but do they use closed model in some of their projects or internally?
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on “Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023”Submitted Baidu ERNIE 5.1 just dropped as a story · 2 points
HN discussiondoubao (bytedance) seed models are interesting Keep your eye on Baidu's Ernie https://ernie.baidu.com/ Artificial analysis is generally on top of everything https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models Those two are really the new players Nanbeige which they haven't benchmarked just put out a shockingly good 3b model https://huggingface.co/Nanbeige - specifically https://huggingface.co/Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.1-3B Y…
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on “Step 3.5 Flash: Fast Enough to Think. Reliable Enough to Act”
