Baidu has released its new large language model, Wenxin 5.1, which significantly enhances search, knowledge, and AI agent capabilities. The model achieves leading domestic search performance and surpasses DeepSeek-V4-Pro in AI agent functionality, while its creative writing and reasoning abilities are comparable to top-tier models. Notably, Wenxin 5.1 was trained using a novel multi-dimensional elastic pre-training technique, reducing training costs to approximately 6% of industry standards. AI
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IMPACT Sets new SOTA for domestic search and agent capabilities, while drastically reducing training costs.
RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card and benchmark results.