Baidu Unveils Major Upgrades to AI Chatbot ERNIE, Claims It Can Match Capabilities of ChatGPT

ERNIE, Baidu’s AI rival to ChatGPT, has been “drastically improved” in understanding, generation, reasoning, and memory.

CEO demonstrated ERNIE 4.0 creating a multimodal car ad, solving complex math, and progressively improving a story plot.

Claims ERNIE 4.0 “is not inferior in any aspect to GPT-4.”

Will offer an improved, interactive search experience like Google's SGE.

New features include recommending customized content, academic research, and generating presentations.