# Baidu's ERNIE Evolve automated research system reports gains on NanoChat and NanoGPT benchmarks

> Original title: Baidu’s ERNIE Evolve Automated Research System Beats NanoChat and NanoGPT Records

- Source: MarkTechPost
- Published: 2026-11-09T16:31:59.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/yvx8h4fffhipudiz2kxkjilpm
- Original: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/11/09/baidu-ernie-evolve-automated-research-system/

## Summary

Baidu has released ERNIE Evolve, an automated research system that picks research directions, edits code, and runs experiments, keeping only changes that pass a hidden evaluator and a separate reviewer. Baidu reports it beat the best public result on three of four public metrics, including 38.9 s on NanoGPT Speedrun Track 1, and cleared production checks on ERNIE-5.5-Flash, with +33.7% deterministic throughput. The system is not released, and the results are self-reported.

## Why it matters

The report separates Baidu's public benchmark results from its production inference gains on ERNIE-5.5-Flash, showing where the claims are self-reported and where they are not.