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Baidu open-sourced ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking on November 13, 2025, releasing it as an Apache 2.0 visual reasoning model. The architecture is a Mixture-of-Experts design with 28 billion total parameters but only 3 billion active during inference, making it computationally efficient while targeting vision-language ta The release made weights available on Hugging Face with an accompanying GitHub repository and Baidu blog post, reinforcing Baidu's open-weights multimodal strategy. The model is part of a broader wave of Chinese open model releases, alongside siblings like ERNIE 4.5 and later ERNIE-Image and ERNIE 5.1 Preview. This ind