Ernie by Baidu
Shares rank 37 of 39 open-weight language models by recommenders
Baidu's open weight model family, recommended as one of the good Chinese AI models; critics note answers stay locked on political topics.
Baidu's open weight model family, recommended as one of the good Chinese AI models; critics note answers stay locked on political topics.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Good Chinese open weight model
“DeepSeek, Alibaba/Qwen, Baidu/ERNIE, and Tencent/Hunyuan are breaking that model by releasing various open weight models”
Comment from 24 May 2026 in “Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI” “there's many good Chinese models and labs, glm, qwen, deepseek, kimik, mimo, longcat, minimax, hy3, Ernie”
Comment from 7 Jul 2026 in “GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse” “Very good models from China, minimax, ernie, glm, deepseek, mimi, Qwen.”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “MiniMax M2.5” Among top Chinese model labs
“there's many good Chinese models and labs, glm, qwen, deepseek, kimik, mimo, longcat, minimax, hy3, Ernie”
Comment from 7 Jul 2026 in “GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse” “Very good models from China, minimax, ernie, glm, deepseek, mimi, Qwen.”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “MiniMax M2.5”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Political topics rigidly restricted
“the core political restrictions remained rigidly locked regardless of emotional pressure”
Comment from 24 Nov 2025 in “Probing Chinese LLM Safety Layers: Reverse-Engineering Kimi and Ernie 4.5”
Other open-weight language models people recommend
The four most recommended other open-weight language models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen 3.8 27B | 1,173 | 426 | 73% | 13 | 2 mo32 owners | Approved |
| Z.ai GLM | 1,043 | 384 | 73% | 13 | 2 mo52 owners | Approved |
| Kimi | 931 | 359 | 72% | 13 | 1 mo26 owners | Approved |
| Gemma 4 | 713 | 249 | 74% | 13 | 1 mo14 owners | Approved |
| Ernie by BaiduThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“always available, and I can't be happier”
“there's many good Chinese models and labs, glm, qwen, deepseek, kimik, mimo, longcat, minimax, hy3, Ernie”
“DeepSeek, Alibaba/Qwen, Baidu/ERNIE, and Tencent/Hunyuan are breaking that model by releasing various open weight models”
“Keep your eye on Baidu's Ernie”
“Very good models from China, minimax, ernie, glm, deepseek, mimi, Qwen.”
“the core political restrictions remained rigidly locked regardless of emotional pressure”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.