🚀PP-OCRv6 is officially released！ 🔥PaddleOCR’s new OCR model series scales from 1.5M to 34.5M parameters, bringing stronger accuracy, faster inference, and broader deployment options — from browsers and edge devices to servers. 📊What’s new: 🔸Tiny / Small / Medium models: 1.5M, 7.7M, 34.5M params 🔸 4.9% detection accuracy and 5.1% recognition accuracy over PP-OCRv5 🔸Up to 5.2× faster CPU inference with OpenVINO 🔸50 languages in one unified model 🔸New scenarios: PCB, CAD drawings, digital tubes, dot-matrix text 🔸Apache 2.0 open source ✨Lightweight OCR, built for the AI data era. 🔗Try it: 🌐 paddleocr.com 💻 github.com/PaddlePaddle/Padd… 🤗huggingface.co/collections/P… #PaddlePaddle #PaddleOCR #OCR #AI #ComputerVision #OpenSource #EdgeAI

👏Surprise: free to use — give it a try！ Baidu CoBuddy is now live on @novita_labs — A powerful code-focused model for developers and AI agents 🚀 ✨131K context · 65K output · native tool calling

🔥 Official Launch: PaddleOCR & ERNIE Image Are Now Available as Dify Plugins — Powering the Next Wave of AI Agents We’re excited to see PaddleOCR and ERNIE Image now available as official Dify plugins — bringing document intelligence and image generation directly into Dify’s agentic AI workflows. A big thank you to @dify_ai , our valued PaddleOCR OCEAN Alliance member, for the continued ecosystem collaboration. 🤝 1️⃣ PaddleOCR — Document AI for agent workflows Turn images, scanned PDFs, and multilingual documents into clean structured data. 🔹 Powered by PP-OCRv5, PP-StructureV3 & PaddleOCR-VL 🔹 High-precision OCR and document parsing 🔹 Structured outputs for downstream chunking, vectorization, and RAG 🔹 Supports private/on-prem deployment for enterprise scenarios 👉 marketplace.dify.ai/plugins/… 2️⃣ ERNIE-Image — Image generation inside Dify Generate visual assets directly in your Dify workflows. 🔹 Free image generation 🔹 Turbo mode with 8-step inference 🔹 OpenAI-style API for easy integration 🔹 Built for posters, social media visuals, and creative production 👉 marketplace.dify.ai/plugin/l… No extra deployment. Add the plugin node, connect your workflow, and start building. ✨ 💻 Learn more: PaddleOCR 👉 github.com/PaddlePaddle/Padd… ERNIE Image 👉 aistudio.baidu.com/ernieimag… Dify 👉 github.com/langgenius/dify #PaddleOCR #ERNIEImage #Dify #DocumentAI #AIGC #AgenticAI #OpenSource

🚀PaddleOCR-VL 1.6 Officially Released! We are thrilled to announce the official release of PaddleOCR-VL 1.6 — this version has set a new SOTA record of 96.33% on OmniDocBench, outperforming both open-source and proprietary solutions in text, formula, and table recognition. 📊 Key Highlights: 🔸 Ranked #1 on OmniDocBench v1.5 and Real5-OmniDocBench as well 🔸 Significant improvements in table, classic text, and rare character recognition 🔸 Enhanced seal, spotting, and chart recognition 🔸 Fully compatible with v1.5 architecture — zero migration, plug-and-play From financial contracts and legal documents to research reports and historical archives — empower your document intelligence workflows by providing high-quality data to large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. ✨ Industry-leading accuracy. Zero migration. Plug-and-play. 🔗 Read more: github.com/PaddlePaddle/Padd… #PaddlePaddle #PaddleOCR #AI #ComputerVision

Congratulations to NabuOCR 🎉 Thanks Zack for trusting us and building something truly meaningful with PaddleOCR. From ancient cuneiform tablets to AI-powered text recognition — technology's journey across millennia is what makes it so inspiring.

US vs China update. Stanford's AI Index put the US–China gap at 2.7%. Here's what two years of real-world use from the Text Arena shows. Gap three years ago: 278. Today: 29. @AnthropicAI's Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking vs. Baidu's @ErnieforDevs Ernie 5.1 at the top. The US has never lost #1, but the race keeps closing.

🚀 PaddleOCR 3.5: Transformers Backend Support Now Live! We're excited to share that PaddleOCR 3.5 now supports Hugging Face Transformers as an inference backend. Run PP-OCRv5 and PaddleOCR-VL 1.5 models directly within the Transformers ecosystem. ✨ What you get: 🔸 Run OCR models with engine="transformers" 🔸 Seamless integration for RAG & Document AI apps 🔸 Less friction, more natural HF stack connection 🔸 Same PaddleOCR pipeline, your favorite backend Big thanks to the @huggingface team for the collaboration! 🙌 🔗 Read the blog: huggingface.co/blog/PaddlePa… #PaddlePaddle #PaddleOCR #HuggingFace #Transformers #OCR

Here is a quick addition to your metrics vocabulary: DAA. Short for Daily Active Agents, it is the agent era's equivalent of DAU. Where tokenomics tracks cost, DAA tracks output — how much work agents are actually getting done. See the full comparison ↓

What does evolution look like in the AI era? To kick off Baidu Create, our CEO Robin Li, laid out a new theory of evolution across three layers: > AI agents moving beyond passive response to active execution > Individuals becoming AI-empowered builders > Enterprises organizing around hybrid teams of people and agents OpenClaw brought that first layer into wider view. It marked the first time agents took center stage, following the rise of models.

Robin proposed Daily Active Agents (DAA) as a defining metric for the agent era, a counterpart to DAU in the mobile internet era. While token consumption reflects cost more than value, DAA brings the conversation back to output. As Robin noted, to measure the health of a platform or ecosystem, more attention should be paid to the DAA metric — the number of agents actively working and delivering results.

ERNIE 5.1 ranked No. 4 globally on @arena's Search Leaderboard, with a score of 1,223. That ranking reflects stronger multi-source retrieval and synthesis, helping generate more consistent, reliable answers for content generation, AI assistants, enterprise knowledge management, and agent applications.

ERNIE 5.1 just dropped. Built on ERNIE 5.0's pre-training foundation, our latest foundation model upgrades search, reasoning, knowledge Q&A, creative writing, and agentic capabilities, while using only around 6% of the pre-training cost of comparable models. More in the thread 🧵

🚀 Congratulations to our ERNIE team on the release of ERNIE 5.1 ! This release demonstrates a strong balance between model capability and training efficiency — achieving competitive performance across reasoning, agentic tasks, search, and world knowledge, while significantly reducing parameter scale and pretraining cost. Particularly notable: 🔹 Strong results on τ3-bench and SpreadsheetBench 🔹 99.6 on AIME26 with tools 🔹 #1 among Chinese models on Arena Search 🔹 Competitive GPQA and MMLU-Pro performance A meaningful step forward for efficient large-model engineering and practical deployment. Looking forward to seeing more developers explore ERNIE 5.1. 👏 #LLM #ERNIE

Agents are moving from buzzword to real-world scale. Join us at Baidu Create 2026 next Wednesday as our CEO Robin Li unpacks what "Agents at Scale" really means: for the agents themselves, for the people working alongside them, and for the organizations evolving with them.

Ernie-5.1 by Baidu’s @ErnieforDevs has landed as #4 in the Search Arena! This makes Baidu a top 3 lab in Search performance, and the only Chinese model in the top 10 overall. Congrats to the @ErnieforDev team on this accomplishment!

🎉 Huge congratulations to our partner — and PaddleOCR OCEAN Alliance member — RAGFlow on reaching an incredible 80K GitHub stars! ⭐🚀 We’re proud to build together with the RAGFlow team through deep PaddleOCR integration and document AI collaboration. More to come! 🌊

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🎉ERNIE Model！

ERNIE 5.1 Preview just went live 🚀 With a lighter, more efficient architecture, it delivers strong performance at its scale. And this is just the start — more ERNIE model updates to come at Baidu Create 2026.