Baidu says automated research system raised model GPU throughput by 33.7%

Baidu unveiled ERNIE Evolve on Monday, saying the system increased throughput for its in-development ERNIE-5.5-Flash model by 33.7% on already tuned GPUs in about three days. The system selects research tasks, edits code and runs experiments, retaining only changes that pass separate checks it cannot see. Baidu also reported more than sixfold faster text generation on Kunlunxin P800 chips. Much of that improvement came from enabling previously unused features, China AI Dispatch noted, making it an unlike comparison with the GPU result. All performance figures are Baidu's own.