In the U.S., all eyes are on OpenAI and Google’s battle for supremacy in generative artificial intelligence. In China, where the government blocks those companies’ internet services, a parallel race is heating up among domestic giants, even as the Chinese firms face growing restrictions on their access to American chips needed for AI.
A key competitor is Baidu, China’s version of Google, which has been focusing on AI longer than most of its peers. While Baidu faces competition from rivals like Bytedance and Alibaba to develop that country’s equivalent of ChatGPT, it is stepping up efforts. Next week, Baidu will launch a new version of Ernie, a conversational AI software also known as a large language model, as well as new applications powered by the model. These include a business-focused AI chatbot that corporate employees could use to get an analysis of their company’s financial performance or customer attributes, similar to how some companies use OpenAI’s technology in the U.S., according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
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