Chinese tech giant Baidu releases its answer to ChatGPT

Baidu's new large language model, Ernie Bot, was released on Thursday.

The company had planned for this mid-March product release for months.

But it was intercepted by the unexpected release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 on Tuesday.

The Chinese public has been hungry for a ChatGPT alternative; both OpenAI and the Chinese government have barred individuals in China from using it.

Baidu's Ernie Bot is trained on “trillions of web pages, tens of billions of search and image data,” it said.

The number of parameters in a model is usually seen as an indicator of how powerful it is.

Many of the multimodal functions showcased on Thursday can already be achieved with the company’s current AI tools, so the innovation is more about integrating them into one more accessible interface.

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