ERNIE 3.5

Closed weights Baidu June 2023

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
27 June 2023

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling, Language modeling/generation

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
Hosted access (no API)
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
SOTA improvement

SOTA scores on AGIEval and MMLU. See article in China Science Daily: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QVdkmofRSTgjQ7UOFX7s1g

Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

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

Reference
Introducing ERNIE 3.5: Baidu’s Knowledge-Enhanced Foundation Model Takes a Giant Leap Forward
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Background

ERNIE 3.5 was published by Baidu, in China, in June 2023. It comes out of industry.

It works in Language, and is recorded as doing language modeling, Language modeling/generation.

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

Training and provenance

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is sOTA improvement.

Answers

ERNIE 3.5 — common questions

01

Who created ERNIE 3.5?

ERNIE 3.5 was published by Baidu, based in China, categorised as industry.

02

When was ERNIE 3.5 released?

ERNIE 3.5 was published in June 2023. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

03

What is ERNIE 3.5 used for?

ERNIE 3.5 works in Language, and is recorded as handling language modeling, Language modeling/generation. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

04

What GPU do I need to run ERNIE 3.5?

None. ERNIE 3.5 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.

05

Is ERNIE 3.5 open source?

No. ERNIE 3.5 has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

06

How many parameters does ERNIE 3.5 have?

No parameter count has been published for ERNIE 3.5, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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