Baidu sees China’s ‘pro-innovation” AI regulations auguring well for Ernie Bot
Baidu CEO expresses optimism about the eventual public release of Ernie Bot and other ChatGPT alternatives in China under new AI regulations.
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Posted 8/23/2023, 2:30:16 PM
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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.
Baidu has made its generative AI product and large language model, ERNIE Bot, publicly available, allowing users to fully experience its abilities, such as understanding, generation, reasoning, and memory, and obtain human feedback to improve the user experience.
Chinese tech giant Baidu has opened access to its Ernie bot to the public, indicating a more relaxed AI policy stance from Beijing, following the release of generative AI projects by Chinese companies in response to the popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Chinese tech firms Baidu, SenseTime, Baichuan, and Zhipu AI have launched their AI chatbots to the public after receiving government approval, signaling China's push to expand the use of AI products and compete with the United States.
Baidu's ERNIE Bot, a ChatGPT-like chatbot, has been rolled out to the public but is heavily censored, providing state-approved responses to sensitive questions and occasionally refusing to answer them at all.
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.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai believes that releasing AI products before OpenAI's ChatGPT would not have been as successful, expressing confidence in the maturity and progress of Google's AI technology.
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.