© Reuters. The emblem of Baidu’s AI chatbot Ernie Bot is displayed close to a display displaying the Baidu brand, on this illustration image taken June 28, 2023. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration
By Yelin Mo and Eduardo Baptista
BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese language know-how large Baidu (NASDAQ:) on Tuesday unveiled the most recent model of its generative synthetic intelligence (AI) mannequin, Ernie 4.0, saying its capabilities had been on par with these of ChatGPT maker OpenAI’s pioneering GPT-4 mannequin.
CEO Robin Li launched Ernie 4.0 at an occasion in Beijing, specializing in what he described because the mannequin’s reminiscence capabilities and demonstrating it writing a martial arts novel in real-time. He additionally confirmed Ernie 4.0 creating promoting posters and movies.
Baidu, proprietor of China’s largest web search engine, is on the forefront of AI fashions in China amid a world craze over the know-how sparked by the introduction of ChatGPT final 12 months.
The agency launched a chatbot powered by Ernie in March, dubbed ErnieBot, although buyers had been upset to be proven solely pre-recorded demonstrations.
In August, Baidu was amongst plenty of companies to obtain authorities approval to launch AI merchandise to the general public.
China now has not less than 130 giant language fashions (LLMs), representing 40% of the worldwide whole and behind solely the US’ 50%, confirmed information from brokerage CLSA.