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Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base. What do its 14 billion active parameters buy you?
Baidu released FP8 and BF16 weights for a 280-billion-parameter base model. Its training window, inference limit and sample server configuration differ.
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The editorial illustration
AI-generated editorial illustration of selecting blocks from a type case, an analogy for routing tokens to experts.
- Image model
- google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image
- Why this image
- The type case depicts selecting a subset from a larger collection, a visual analogy for sparse expert routing.
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Original editorial cut-paper illustration, landscape 3:2. A printmaker’s shallow wooden type case holds many orderly dark teal blocks. A small selection of brass blocks has been lifted out onto a cream work surface beside the case, ready to assemble a new design. A striking close overhead composition, precise edges, soft morning shadows, warm paper texture. Visual metaphor for a large model activating a subset of its parameters; not a literal schematic. No lettering, numbers, logos, faces, or screens.
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Code-rendered visual summary; AI-designed layout. Text comes from the article headline and summary.
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