Baidu Says Its Ernie 3.5 AI Outshines OpenAI’s ChatGPT In Multiple Key Metrics – News18

Baidu Inc, China’s main search engine supplier, stated the most recent iteration of its ChatGPT-style service had surpassed the broadly widespread Microsoft-backed OpenAI chatbot on a number of key metrics.

Baidu stated in a press release on Tuesday that Ernie 3.5, the most recent model of its Ernie AI mannequin, had surpassed “ChatGPT in comprehensive ability scores” and outperformed “GPT-4 in several Chinese capabilities”.

The Beijing-based firm cited a take a look at that the state newspaper China Science Daily ran utilizing datasets together with AGIEval and C-Eval, two benchmarks used to judge the efficiency of synthetic intelligence (AI) fashions.

OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to an e-mail in search of remark outdoors of typical enterprise hours.

The Baidu announcement comes amid a worldwide AI buzz kicked off by ChatGPT that has unfold to China, prompting a flurry of home corporations to announce rival merchandise.

Baidu was the primary massive Chinese tech firm to debut a AI product to rival ChatGPT when it unveiled its language AI Ernie Bot in March. Ernie Bot, constructed on Baidu’s older Ernie 3.0 AI mannequin, has been in invite-only assessments for the previous three months.

Other massive Chinese tech companies, together with Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings, have all since revealed their respective AI fashions.

Baidu stated its new mannequin comes with higher coaching and inference effectivity, which positions it for sooner and cheaper iterations sooner or later. Baidu additionally stated its new mannequin would assist exterior “plugins”.

Plugins are further purposes that may permit Baidu’s AI to work on extra particular eventualities corresponding to summarizing lengthy textual content and producing extra exact solutions.

ChatGPT rolled out plugin assist in March.

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