# Baidu — ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking: A Breakthrough in Multimodal AI

- Company: Baidu (baidu.com)
- Announced: 2025-11-11T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: model-update
- Subject: ERNIE
- Models affected: ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B
- Source: https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/posts/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b-thinking/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4650-ernie-4-5-vl-28b-a3b-thinking-a-breakthrough-in-multimodal-ai

Baidu announces ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, an upgraded multimodal model with enhanced reasoning, visual grounding, and tool utilization capabilities, achieving performance close to top flagship models while activating only 3B parameters.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/posts/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b-thinking/:

> Built upon the powerful ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B architecture, the newly upgraded ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking achieves a remarkable leap forward in multimodal reasoning capabilities.

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