Baidu launches ERNIE Evolve speeding up ERNIE-5.5-Flash

Baidu has introduced ERNIE Evolve, an AI system designed to autonomously run experiments and improve AI code. According to the company, the system successfully sped up its in-development ERNIE-5.5-Flash model by over 33% on GPUs and more than sixfold on Kunlunxin chips, while also outperforming public research benchmarks. Baidu plans to extend the system to model training and automated test design while maintaining human supervision. Open article →