Baidu disclosed ERNIE Evolve, an automated research system that selects research directions, modifies code, runs experiments and retains changes that pass independent checks. It has been used to optimize inference for the in-development ERNIE 5.5 Flash, with Baidu reporting a 33.7% throughput increase on GPUs and more than sixfold faster text generation on Kunlunxin P800 chips. The performance and public-benchmark figures are vendor-reported, and the Kunlunxin comparison is not like-for-like because previously unused features were enabled.