Baidu, a Beijing-based Chinese technology company known for search and AI, unveiled new AI products at Baidu World 2026 on November 12, expanding its enterprise lineup across models, agents, cloud services, and chips.

Baidu said Ernie 5.5 Flash Preview has 280 billion parameters and a 1 million-token context window.

Its API is already available, and Baidu plans to release the model weights by November 25.

Baidu also launched Token Exchange, a token marketplace connecting model providers and customers.

Baidu said the platform had onboarded more than 100 model resources in its first month.

The company also updated agents including DuMate and KOOKO.

Baidu said Apollo Go, its autonomous ride-hailing service, now operates in 28 cities worldwide and has logged more than 350 million autonomous kilometres.

The announcement follows an April 2026 report that China suspended new autonomous vehicle permits after a Baidu-related outage.

🔗 Source: Baidu

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