Ernie 4.0 Turbo

Closed weights Baidu June 2024

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

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Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Baidu
Organisation type
Industry
Country
China
Published
28 June 2024
Authors
Baidu

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Multimodal, Language, Vision
Task
Vision-language generation, Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Chat, Visual question answering
Approach
Supervised

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
API access
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Why it is tracked
Significant use

300 million users

Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Baidu launches upgraded AI model, says Ernie Bot hits 300 mln users
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

Ernie 4.0 Turbo was published by Baidu, in China, in June 2024. The organisation is categorised as industry.

It works in Multimodal, Language, Vision, and is recorded as doing vision-language generation, Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Chat, Visual question answering.

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

What went into building it

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is significant use.

Answers

Ernie 4.0 Turbo — common questions

01

How many parameters does Ernie 4.0 Turbo have?

No parameter count has been published for Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

02

Who created Ernie 4.0 Turbo?

Ernie 4.0 Turbo was published by Baidu, based in China, categorised as industry.

03

When was Ernie 4.0 Turbo released?

Ernie 4.0 Turbo was published in June 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

04

What is Ernie 4.0 Turbo used for?

Ernie 4.0 Turbo works in Multimodal, Language, Vision, and is recorded as handling vision-language generation, Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Chat, Visual question answering. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

05

What GPU do I need to run Ernie 4.0 Turbo?

None. Ernie 4.0 Turbo is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

06

Is Ernie 4.0 Turbo open source?

No. Ernie 4.0 Turbo has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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