ERNIE X1

Deep-thinking reasoning model series with multimodal capabilities. ERNIE X1 delivers performance on par with DeepSeek-R1 at lower cost. ERNIE X1.1 (September 2025) improves factuality by 34.8%, instruction following by 12.5%, and agentic capabilities by 9.6%, performing on par with GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. Built on an iterative hybrid reinforcement learning framework atop the ERNIE 4.5 multimodal foundation model.