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文心大模型5.1预览版

The Wenxin Model 5.1 Preview is a large-scale reasoning model developed by Baidu. It boasts an extremely massive scale of approximately 8 trillion parameters and is a foundation model with a 128K context window.

Parameters

8000.0B

Context Window

128K

License

Proprietary

Release Date

2026-04-30

API Pricing

API pricing for this model is not yet available

Strengths

  • Overwhelming ~8 trillion parameters
  • Advanced reasoning capabilities
  • Long 128K context window

Weaknesses

  • Closed licensing system
  • Non-public model architecture
  • Instability as a preview version

Use Cases

  • Complex logical reasoning tasks
  • Analysis of large documents
  • Building advanced knowledge bases

Deep Analysis

Architecture

MoE (~800B total)

Extracted from ERNIE 5.0 (2.4T) sub-model matrix

Active Parameters

~400B (half of total)

Compressed from ERNIE 5.0

LMArena Search Arena

#4 globally (1223 score)

#1 among Chinese models

AIME 2026 (with tools)

99.6

Second only to Gemini 3.1 Pro

Training Cost

~6% of comparable models

Extreme efficiency

Release Date

May 8, 2026

Latest flagship

LMArena Text

#14 globally

Highest Chinese model position

Strengths

  • #4 globally on LMArena Search Arena
  • AIME26 score of 99.6 (near-perfect)
  • Only 6% pre-training cost of comparable models
  • Strong agentic capabilities (surpasses DeepSeek-V4-Pro on tau3-bench)
  • Top Chinese model on multiple leaderboards
  • Approaches Gemini 3.1 Pro in creative writing

Weaknesses

  • Very large model, limited self-hosting options
  • Chinese model with English as secondary
  • Relatively new (May 2026), limited production track record

Competitor Comparison

ModelArenaSWEGPQAPrice
Gemini 3.1 Pro---Paid
Claude Opus 4.6---Paid
DeepSeek V4 Pro---Lower

ERNIE 5.1 is Baidu's latest flagship model released May 8, 2026. With ~800B total parameters, it achieves #4 globally on LMArena Search Arena, AIME26 score of 99.6, and surpasses DeepSeek-V4-Pro on agentic benchmarks, all while using only 6% of the pre-training cost of comparable models.

Analysis generated: 2026-05-24