Baidu ERNIE-4.5 — DeepSeek R1 level at half the price 👸

Another Small Language Model from the Chinese 🇨🇳 Baidu. This model is a DeepSeek R1 level but at half the cost.

The benchmark reported by Baidu shows that Ernie-4.5 beats 4o in multimodal capability and in some benchmark even gpt-4.5 in text capability — models today are getting overfitted for winning benchmark, running this model by hand generally shows a different story, and well, you can try it yourself here https://yiyan.baidu.com/ (just be aware that your data is getting collected).