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ERNIE Bot (Wenxin Yiyan)
ERNIE Bot, also called Wenxin Yiyan, is Baidu's AI assistant for chat, writing, document work, reasoning, and other creative tasks.

ERNIE Bot is Baidu's web-based AI assistant. Users can chat with the ERNIE model, generate and revise creative or professional text, analyze long documents, and use agent-oriented capabilities for task completion.
Baidu's official blog identifies ERNIE 5.1 as the latest model release read during this search. The service is available through the web product, while developer access and usage-based model services are provided separately through Baidu's AI and Qianfan platforms.
Features
- Chat with the ERNIE 5.1 model
- Generate creative writing and professional text
- Read and analyze long office documents
- Draft marketing plans and other business content
- Support agent-oriented task execution
- Handle multimodal text, image, audio, and video capabilities through ERNIE models
Use cases
- Draft marketing plans, job descriptions, and business documents
- Summarize and analyze long workplace documents
- Generate creative stories, scripts, and other written content
- Ask questions and develop ideas through Chinese-language chat
- Use model capabilities as a foundation for AI applications through Qianfan
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- Introducing ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
Explore the model.
- ERNIE 5.1 Officially Released! Topping Multiple Leaderboards — A Model That Writes Better and Understands You More
Officially released.
- Introducing ERNIE-Image
Introducing ERNIE-Image.
- ERNIE 5.0: A 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Unified Multimodal Foundation Model
A 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Foundation Model.
- PaddleOCR-VL-1.5: Towards a Multi-Task 0.9B VLM for Robust In-the-Wild Document Parsing
A 0.9B VLM for Document Parsing.
Capabilities
Pricing
- Starting price
- Free
- Prices checked
- 2026-10-27
Free
Free