BAIDU JUST DROPPED AN OPEN-SOURCE MULTIMODAL AI THAT IT CLAIMS BEATS GPT-5 AND GEMINI

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ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking is a 28-billion-parameter multimodal AI model that only activates 3 billion parameters during operation. It has a sophisticated routing architecture that allows it to match or exceed the performance of much larger competing systems on several categories of tasks. The model's most distinctive feature is 'Thinking with Images', a capability that allows the AI to dynamically zoom in and out of images to examine details. The feature dramatically elevates the model's ability to handle long-tail visual knowledge. The model has been released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, which allows unrestricted commercial use.