Baidu, a major Chinese technology company, announced today (April 16) that Ernie Bot, a ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the company, has surpassed 200 million users and aims to make Ernie the most popular AI chatbot in China. In the midst of fierce competition
Baidu started rolling out Ernie Bot about eight months ago, and the number of users has doubled since the company updated the version in December.
Robin Li Yanhong, CEO of Baidu, said that Ernie Bot’s application programming interface (API) is currently used about 200 million times a day. Or equivalent to the number of times he is asked to do different tasks each day.
Meanwhile, the number of corporate customers using the chatbot has risen to 85,000.
Li told analysts in February that Baidu was already making money from Ernit Bot, and that in the fourth quarter the company earned hundreds of millions of yuan by using artificial intelligence to improve its services and help other companies Create your own language model
Ernie Bot, the first ChatGPT-style AI chatbot, launched in China in March last year and was licensed to the public in August.
The Chinese government requires tech companies to obtain permission before launching generative artificial intelligence services.
From recent information it was found that Other AI chatbots, especially Kimi, developed by Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI startup is growing and gaining popularity rapidly.
However, when measured internationally Chinese AI chatbots still lag behind Western competitors, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT still the most popular generative AI service in the world, with total traffic growing 9% to 1, 86 billion views last month
In recent months, the Chinese government has been rushing to issue licenses for many artificial intelligence services. After announcing artificial intelligence as one of the key technology sectors that must compete with the United States.
Chinese media reported that last week The government has approved a total of 117 large-scale artificial intelligence models.
Source: Reuters
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