Chinese AI continued to march onto the world stage this week, with Alibaba and Baidu both taking major strides.
Let’s start with Baidu, which on Thursday announced its intention to make its Ernie Bot chatbot free, everywhere, from April 1st.
The bot draws on the ERNIE 4.0 model which debuted in 2023 and was launched without details of the corpus used to train it, but the assertion that it can go toe-to-toe with GPT4. Baidu’s since added the ERNIE 4.0 Turbo model, again without offering…
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