Baidu’s loss-making autonomous-driving project Apollo will focus on generating revenue and profits after a seven-year testing phase, as the Chinese internet search giant pivots to generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to an internal letter written by the unit chief. While Baidu is one of the country’s leading players in self-driving vehicle technology, it has yet … Read more
Baidu’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Ernie Bot has attracted over 200 million users, according to company co-founder and chief executive Robin Li Yanhong, as the race to commercialise AI heats up in China. Ernie Bot reached the milestone just 13 months after its launch, with enterprise client numbers exceeding 85,000, Li said at Baidu’s AI … Read more
Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI narrows gap with Baidu’s Ernie Bot as China’s generative AI rivalry heats up The competition among Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots is heating up, as Moonshot AI, a 12 month old start-up, has overtaken Alibaba Group Holding’s Tongyi Qianwen and is narrowing the gap with domestic leader Baidu’s Ernie Bot, according to … Read more
Beijing-based ByteDance’s website listed more than 320 GenAI-related job openings as of Tuesday, up from 307 vacancies posted a month earlier, according to a search conducted by the South China Morning Post. A specific search for jobs in the development of large language models (LLMs) – the technology used to train ChatGPT and similar GenAI … Read more
Apple wants AI tech on its iPhones – and is reportedly in talks with two of its rivals and a Chinese internet giant to make it happen. The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple is in early discussions with Baidu – the go-to search engine in China – to bring its generative AI model, the … Read more
Baidu’s Ernie 4 artificial intelligence (AI) model, one of China’s leading large language models (LLMs), has outperformed similar technologies from US peers in generating Chinese texts such as those in the style of Imperial Chinese poetry, according to Robin Li Yanhong, co-founder and CEO of the internet search giant. In an hour-long programme aired by … Read more
Under a strategic partnership between Samsung’s China arm and Baidu AI Cloud, the recently unveiled Galaxy S24 series will deploy the Ernie LLM to perform the handset’s new “Circle to Search” feature that enables users on the mainland to search texts, images or videos via hand gestures, with results provided by the Chinese online search … Read more
This move was “not totally unexpected, given investors have been waiting for more details in past years”, Jefferies equity analysts Thomas Chong and Zoey Zong said in a research note on Monday, following Baidu’s announcement. They indicated that China’s internet sector “has been undergoing changes”, which reflects Baidu’s focus on generative AI. “For Baidu, Ernie … Read more
Baidu recently announced that its ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence (AI) product called Ernie Bot has surpassed 100 million users. It is worth noting that the Ernie Bot draws its power from an internally developed large language model (LLM), which uses enhanced representation through knowledge integration. Designed to compete with AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing … Read more
