ERNIE 5.5 Flash Turns Prompts Into Videos
Baidu’s ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview generated a short recursive self-improvement explainer end to end, using pi as the agent harness and ElevenLabs for voice. The 280B-parameter mixture-of-experts model activates 14B parameters per token and supports a 1M-token context window.
This is stronger evidence of tool orchestration than of recursive self-improvement itself, but it shows how quickly capable models are becoming practical production agents.
- –The model handled scripting, visual planning, asset coordination, and final video assembly from one prompt.
- –pi and ElevenLabs demonstrate that model capability increasingly depends on the surrounding toolchain.
- –The 14B-active architecture and fast decoding could make long-running creative workflows more economical.
- –Baidu’s RSI framing remains mostly a product claim until it publishes technical details on ERNIE Evolve’s methods and evaluations.
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