AINewsnow

How to Run ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base Locally (8 H100s or 2 B300s, and It Won't Chat)

ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base won't chat with you. Baidu's new 280B open-weight model on Hugging Face is the raw end-of-pre-training checkpoint, it's served through /v1/completions , the smaller of its two repos is a 288 GB download, and just holding the weights takes two 288 GB GPUs or eight 80 GB ones. If…

Read the full story at DEV Community — Machine Learning ↗

Timeline · 2 reports

  1. 2026-11-06 23:59 · DEV Community — AI
    Baidu's ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base: can you self-host a 280B open model, and who is allowed to?
  2. 2026-11-06 18:50 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    How to Run ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base Locally (8 H100s or 2 B300s, and It Won't Chat)

More stories

  1. Hinton Warns AI Could Disrupt Power and Finance: He Calls for Independent Testing Before Release — DEV Community — AI
  2. ERNIE-Image 8B: Posters and Chinese Text First, Portraits Second — DEV Community — AI
  3. How to Run Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 Locally: 3B MIT OCR for 300-Page PDFs — DEV Community — Machine Learning
  4. Proposal: uncensoring LoRAs — r/LocalLLaMA
  5. Kimi K3.1 Pro Open Weights: A Developer's Checklist Before You Self-Host a 2.8T Model — DEV Community — AI
  6. olmOCR-bench on Hugging Face: Three Rows Use a Different Average, and One Moves From 13th to 7th or 19th — DEV Community — Machine Learning
  7. The Open-Source Paradox: Giving Away AI Makes It Safer (and More Dangerous) — DEV Community — AI
  8. Huggingface - WOW.. 2 ZeroGPU Spaces for all free accounts? — r/LocalLLaMA

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →