ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B is an AI model developed by Baidu (China), first published in June 2025. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as language modeling/generation, quantitative reasoning, code generation and 2 more.
Training it took an estimated 1.8×10²³ FLOP of compute. The model has 21,000,000,000 parameters.
Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as speculative.