Baidu claims its AI bot outperforms ChatGPT on key measures

Baidu Inc.’s ChatGPT-style service has outperformed OpenAI’s seminal product on a number of measures, China’s search chief mentioned on Tuesday.

Ernie 3.5, the most recent iteration of Baidu’s basis mannequin, has surpassed OpenAI’s chatbot constructed on GPT-3.5 on the whole skills and outperformed the extra superior GPT-4 on a number of Chinese-language capabilities, the corporate mentioned in a press release. It cited a check by the state newspaper China Science Daily, primarily based on datasets together with AGIEval and C-Eval, benchmarks designed for evaluating such AI fashions.

Baidu’s new mannequin additionally boosted its coaching and inference effectivity, making it sooner and cheaper to iterate and improve to future variations. The firm’s ChatGPT rival has been in public beta testing for the previous three months.

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The Beijing-based search supplier debuted Ernie Bot in March as China’s first main riposte to ChatGPT, sparking a race by home tech companies together with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to unveil rival platforms. Baidu hopes Ernie Bot — constructed atop its years of funding, analysis and growth in AI expertise — will develop into the following must-have app on this planet’s largest web area, luring customers again from all-in-one platforms like Tencent’s WeChat.

The firm is integrating Ernie Bot throughout a number of enterprise strains, starting from cloud computing to sensible audio system. Baidu has additionally put aside a $140 million enterprise fund to put money into OpenAI-like startups.

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Chinese regulators have mentioned that any generative AI companies would wish their approval earlier than being rolled out within the nation. US sanctions, within the meantime, have disadvantaged Chinese tech companies of the most effective chips to coach their AI fashions, making enhancements in effectivity all of the extra essential.

“Foundation models are an engine driving global economic growth and represent a major strategic opportunity that cannot be missed,” Baidu’s billionaire founder Robin Li instructed an viewers of Chinese authorities officers and fellow web executives in an occasion Monday.