Baidu

November 12, 2026

Baidu Launches ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, Promises Open Weights by November 25

At its Baidu World 2026 conference on November 12, Baidu unveiled ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 280 billion total parameters and 14 billion activated per token. The model supports a 1-million-token context window. Baidu says it performs strongly…

November 7, 2026

Baidu Hit with Securities Fraud Class Action Over AI Growth Claims

A federal class action filed in September alleges that Baidu misled investors about the ability of its AI business to offset a shrinking legacy advertising operation, marking a closely watched test of whether AI-related hype can cross into securities fraud.