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On October 27, 2026, while sharing content related to Baidu's Unlimited OCR 2 open-source model, Shao Meng commented that Baidu "got up early but arrived late" in GenAI, especially in the LLM years. He mentioned that before GenAI, Baidu had done solid work on OCR, ASR TTS, and the Paddle platform, but ERNIE Bot and ERNIE ViLG later faded into obscurity. Shao Meng also said that he saw some shares about Unlimited OCR 2 labeled "Paid Membership," while he himself had not received any business collaboration. Currently, this comment is only seen in Shao Meng's own share, and there are no other factual developments.
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Baidu Unlimited OCR 2 open-sourced, then shared by paid members
After Shao Meng shared Baidu's open-source Unlimited OCR 2 model, he saw some shares about it labeled "Paid Membership," even though he himself had not received any business collaboration. Unlimited OCR 2 is an open-source OCR/layout parsing model aimed at documents ranging from dozens to hundreds of pages, using a 3B/A0.5B MoE architecture; the author says that at the hundred-page scale, step-by-step decoding speed is about 7.0× that of Full Attention and about 5.6× that of R-SWA. He also lamented that before GenAI, Baidu did solid work on OCR, ASR TTS, and the Paddle platform, but in LLMs over the past few years it rose early and arrived late, with ERNIE Bot and ERNIE ViLG later fading away.