01 The short version
Considered when ERNIE is specifically required, when Kunlun capacity is easier to get than NVIDIA, or when a mainland partner has standardised on it.
- Kunlun accelerators are a genuine alternative when NVIDIA allocation in-region is the constraint.
- ERNIE has real strengths in Chinese-language tasks that Western benchmarks do not measure well.
- Smallest English-language ecosystem of the six. Budget accordingly.
02 What we do here
BUILD
Inference on Baidu
Open-weight models running on Baidu capacity, gateway routing in front, full cost and usage records underneath, the networking and IAM to hold it together. Deployed in your account with Terraform you keep.
RUN
Operate it monthly
Capacity planning against Baidu quota and pricing, model rotations, incident response, and a monthly report that reconciles against your actual Baidu invoice.
FOUNDATION
Accounts, network, IAM
If the Baidu footprint does not exist yet, or exists as one account somebody made in 2021, we build the landing zone underneath before anything else goes on top.
03 The others
We are not loyal to any of them. The right platform is the one where your data already is, your latency is acceptable and the GPUs are actually available this quarter — and that answer changes.