On January 22, the ERNIE Moment Conference 2026 · Shanghai and the Second ERNIE Large Model Ecosystem Conference were successfully held. The conference brought together AI technology leaders and industry pioneers from China and abroad to focus on large model technological innovation, industry applications, and ecosystem development, showcasing the latest progress and practical achievements.

At the conference, the first batch of ERNIE software-hardware integrated co-creation products was officially released. As an important ecosystem partner of ERNIE, Futong Technology jointly launched the Futong iCore ERNIE Large Model All-in-One Appliance with Baidu ERNIE. The product was selected into the first batch of co-creation offerings. Featuring a “full-stack integrated, plug-and-play” form factor, the appliance provides secure, controllable, and rapidly deployable large model infrastructure and application capabilities for industries including healthcare, automotive, government, and financial services.

The Futong iCore ERNIE Large Model All-in-One Appliance was selected as one of the first ERNIE software-hardware integrated co-creation products.

Ma Yang, General Manager of the Futong Oriental Ecosystem Cooperation Center (fifth from the left), receiving the certificate at the ERNIE Moment Conference.

Software-Hardware Integration Driving Large Models from “Usable” to “Highly Effective”

Designed for enterprise-level and industry-level large model deployment scenarios, the Futong iCore ERNIE Large Model All-in-One Appliance integrates compute, models, platforms, and applications into a single solution. It supports full-range coverage from 0.3B lightweight deployments to 424B ultra-large models, meeting the differentiated needs of customers of varying sizes and development stages.

At the model layer, the appliance has completed deep adaptation and inference optimization for the ERNIE model series, supporting private deployment and high-performance inference. Combined with the Futong iCore enterprise-grade intelligent agent platform, enterprises can rapidly build industry intelligent agents tailored to local business scenarios, enabling “model as a service and intelligence as application.”

At the platform and system level, the Futong iCore ERNIE Large Model All-in-One Appliance comes with built-in no-code intelligent agent construction capabilities, intelligent transformation of unstructured data, and cloud-edge collaborative compute scheduling. It provides one-stop connectivity across AI application development, data governance, and compute deployment, significantly lowering the threshold and cost for enterprises to adopt large models.

Proprietary Patented Technologies Enable Small Models to Deliver Large-Model Capabilities

Leveraging Futong Technology’s proprietary dynamic distillation knowledge base and intelligent orchestration agent technologies, the Futong iCore ERNIE Large Model All-in-One Appliance achieves application performance close to that of ultra-large models under limited compute resources.

Tests in typical business scenarios show that a 21B-parameter model can approach the capability level of a 300B-parameter model, with response latency of less than 200 ms under thousands of concurrent requests. The performance gap compared with a 671B-parameter model is less than 3%, while overall costs are approximately one-tenth of traditional solutions, providing industry customers with a more cost-effective path for large model deployment.

At the hardware and infrastructure level, Futong Technology provides a complete server supply portfolio covering high-performance compute servers, storage servers, data-center-grade network equipment, and rack-level integrated systems. Through full-stack optimization, GPU cluster performance is fully unleashed to ensure large model inference efficiency and system stability.

The Futong iCore ERNIE Large Model All-in-One Appliance supports turnkey delivery, covering the entire process from data center deployment and environment adaptation to model go-live. System tuning, security policies, and operations and maintenance monitoring are delivered in an integrated manner, shortening the overall deployment cycle by approximately 60%.

Continuous Alignment with the ERNIE Model Ecosystem to Build Scenario-Oriented AI Products

Beyond the large model all-in-one appliance, the Futong iCore AI product portfolio has completed comprehensive adaptation and integration with the ERNIE model ecosystem and continues to evolve alongside the latest ERNIE model capabilities. Across data governance, intelligent agent development, and industry applications, Futong and ERNIE work in deep synergy to provide customers with AI deployment experiences that deliver higher performance, stronger security, and closer alignment with business scenarios.

The Futong iCore Data Workshop, guided by the “Data Ready for AI” concept, enables end-to-end capabilities spanning multi-source data ingestion, intelligent governance, knowledge construction, model training, and intelligent applications. The platform supports processing up to 50,000 private-domain data records per hour and 10,000 public-domain data records per hour, with the fastest deployment reaching T+6 hours, accelerating the transformation of enterprise data into intelligent productivity.

At the industry application level, the Futong iCore Industry Voice of Customer (VOC) platform focuses on core automotive scenarios, covering key stages such as sales, after-sales, quality, and marketing. Based on the methodology of “Hear — Clarify — Understand,” the platform transforms massive volumes of customer feedback into actionable business insights, enabling issue identification, intelligent task dispatch, closed-loop handling, and effectiveness review, helping automakers continuously improve customer experience and operational efficiency.

Addressing broader enterprise intelligence needs, the Futong iCore Enterprise Intelligent Agent Platform, centered on “AI × Industry × Scenarios,” provides open and compatible model capabilities, flexible multi-cloud and private deployment options, and ready-to-use product delivery. It supports customers in progressing from single-point applications to the construction of sustainable, operational AI service systems.

Through this joint release, Futong Technology and ERNIE have achieved deep collaboration across models, platforms, hardware, and scenarios, jointly exploring a deployment path for large models that is software-hardware integrated, platform-driven, and scenario-oriented. Both parties will continue to work together to promote the large-scale application of large model technologies across more industries, accelerate the transformation of AI from technical capability to business value, and help enterprises build long-term competitive advantages in the era of intelligent transformation.