Chinese search engine giant Baidu unveiled its latest Ernie chatbot to the public.
The AI bot, which offers capabilities nearly on par with GPT-4, is considered the first major Chinese contender to ChatGPT.
- During
a live-streamed news conference today, Baidu founder Robin Li showed
off a pre-recorded demo of Ernie, which can generate images and videos
based on Chinese text prompts and deliver audio responses in various
Chinese dialects.
- In the presentation, Ernie summarized a Chinese novel and offered suggestions on how to expand the book, among other tasks.
- However, Baidu shares fell by as much as 10% on Thursday as investors were disappointed that a live demo wasn't shown.
- Ernie,
which stands for "Enhanced Representation through Knowledge
Integration," contains 550 billion facts in its knowledge graph.
- More than 650 companies have signed up to utilize the technology, which is currently available on an invite-only basis.
- Ernie will eventually be embedded in Baidu's search services, enabling conversational results similar to ChatGPT.
