In this context, China has entered an artificial intelligence war with the West. The use of ChatGPT in China-based companies is prohibited. we have already informed you before. The first concrete development that justified this ban took place today.

Baidu, China’s most used search engine, has its own AI-powered chatbot. Ernie Bot introduced. The company’s chatbot, which hosts the press conference, can understand and answer complex questions, just like ChatGPT.

Ernie Bot is not available yet:

Baidu has announced that Ernie Bot’s internal trials will be completed within this month. However, it has not yet shared a clear date when the chatbot will be available. The company’s CEO, Robin Li, said the bot is not there yet that you are not perfect also exposed.

So what language model does this bot use?

Ernie Bot was introduced in 2019 and has been in development ever since.Enhanced representation through knowledge integration (ERNIE)It uses the language model. There is no clear information about the capacity of the language model.

Like Microsoft’s Bing, it works integrated into the search engine:

Ernie Bot follows the same path as the ChatGPT integration we saw on Bing today. Boots, It will be integrated into Baidu and will answer the calls made. But apart from that, Baidu will also try to focus on other areas.

The company plans to roll out the AI ​​bot in smart vehicles, cloud and other industries. Moreover, according to the statement of the CEO, in this framework Agreements have been made with 650 companies. Among these companies are media platforms affiliated with the Chinese state.