Baidu and SenseTime launch ChatGPT-style AI bots to the public
Chinese tech firms Baidu and SenseTime have launched their AI bots, ERNIE Bot and SenseChat, to the public, marking a milestone in the global AI race and boosting their stock prices.
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Posted 8/31/2023, 6:14:00 AM
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Baidu, China's leading AI technology and search leader, has outperformed Alibaba in the stock market since January 2023, indicating confidence in its AI growth prospects and its ability to integrate AI into its products and services. Baidu's diverse verticals and strong search data advantage have helped it maintain its AI leadership and mitigate the impact of weak physical goods spending. The company's investments in generative AI and autonomous ride-hailing further solidify its position in the Chinese economy.
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Chinese tech giant Baidu has released the country's first publicly available artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, with other companies following suit, as Chinese developers aim to compete with Western rivals while adhering to government regulations.
Baidu's Ernie Bot generative AI service received 33 million questions on its public debut, becoming the most popular app in China, but faced challenges in answering some queries and providing fair responses, highlighting the difficulties of public chatbot services in the country's tightly controlled speech environment.
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Chinese tech giant Baidu is making a comeback with its premier AI chatbot, Ernie, attracting significant attention and excitement, signaling the potential for a resurgence in Chinese tech, although challenges such as US export controls and increasing authoritarianism pose risks to its success.
Chinese tech giant Baidu has launched over 10 new AI applications, including a generative AI-integrated word processing app called WPS AI, following the public release of its Ernie chatbot.
Several big tech companies in China, including ByteDance, Baidu, and SenseTime, have launched their own chatbots to the public, despite regulatory constraints and other hurdles.
Baidu's release of its own AI chatbot, along with strong Q2 results and a significant valuation discrepancy with Google, suggests that the company's shares could potentially break out to the upside and outperform its competitors.
Bots are scraping information from powerful AI models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4, in new ways, leading to issues such as unauthorized training data extraction, unexpected bills, and the evasion of China's AI model blockade.