China just shook up the AI leaderboard.
Baidu’s ERNIE-5.0-Preview-1022 scored 1432 on LMArena, ranking #1 in China and tied for #2 globally — ahead of GPT-5-high and most major models out there.
Strongest in creative writing, reasoning, and instruction following, it now stands alongside other leading models at the top of the text leaderboard.
After six years of evolution, the full ERNIE 5.0 is reportedly set to drop at Baidu World 2025 on November 13.
Global AI dominance isn’t a one-region story anymore.