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Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B

baidu/ernie-4.5-21b-a3b

Model weights

A sophisticated text-based Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model featuring 21B total parameters with 3B activated per token, delivering exceptional multimodal understanding and generation through heterogeneous MoE structures and modality-isolated routing. Supporting an extensive 131K token context length, the model achieves efficient inference via multi-expert parallel collaboration and quantization, while advanced post-training techniques including SFT, DPO, and UPO ensure optimized performance across diverse applications with specialized routing and balancing losses for superior task handling.

Modalities

Context

131K

Released

Aug 12, 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Mar 2025

About Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B

OpenRouter makes Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID baidu/ernie-4.5-21b-a3b.

Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B accepts text and returns text. It has a 131,072-token context window.

It was released on August 12, 2025; its knowledge cutoff is March 31, 2025.

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Frequently asked questions

A sophisticated text-based Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model featuring 21B total parameters with 3B activated per token, delivering exceptional multimodal understanding and generation through heterogeneous MoE structures and modality-isolated routing.

ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B has a 131,072 token context window.

ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47B is another text model from Baidu.

ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B was released on August 12, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is March 31, 2025.

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Activity

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