# Baidu — Introducing ERNIE-Image

- Company: Baidu (baidu.com)
- Announced: 2026-04-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: ERNIE
- Models affected: ERNIE-Image
- Source: https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/posts/ernie-image/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4642-introducing-ernie-image

Baidu announced ERNIE-Image, a text-to-image generation model with 8B DiT parameters, claiming leading performance among open-weights models.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/posts/ernie-image/:

> ERNIE-Image is a text-to-image generation model built on a single-stream Diffusion Transformer (DiT) with 8B DiT parameters, achieving leading performance among open-weights models.

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