China’s Baidu is working on its AI-powered chatbot like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and plans to incorporate the service into its main search engine in March.
The company would be the first to bring the technology to China as ChatGPT is blocked there. In December, Baidu CEO Robin Li said the technology presents new opportunities.
- Li said turning AI-powered technology into a product everyone needs is the hardest step but also the greatest and most influential.
- According to sources, Baidu plans to limit its chatbot outputs in alignment with China’s censorship rules.
- Google and Microsoft are also working on developing the technology underlying ChatGPT and integrating it into their respective products.
- Microsoft recently announced an up to $10B investment in OpenAI.
- In 2021, Google released a similar technology called LaMDA, and in 2020 Meta Platforms released a chatbot called BlenderBot.
