Overview

  • Founded Date April 13, 1917
  • Sectors Automotive
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Company Description

South China Morning Post

In January 2024, Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post reported that a university research laboratory linked to individuals’s Liberation Army (PLA) had actually checked Ernie Bot and iFlyTek’s Spark for plans with circumstances involving the United States. After its listed stock in Hong Kong plunged by more than 11.5 percent, Baidu made a main statement rejecting the claims. [11]

Ernie was incorporated for the Chinese launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup. [14] [15]

In June 2024, Baidu revealed that Ernie Bot had reached 300 million users. The business also unveiled its newest foundation design, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which boasts faster action times and enhanced performance. [16]

In September 2024, Baidu provided everyone using the app access to the 4.0 Turbo design and likewise revealed it would alter its Chinese name from “Wenxin Yiyan” (文心一言) to “Wenxiaoyan” (文小言) placing itself as a search assistant. [17] [18]

Training

Ernie Bot is based on specific Ernie foundation models, consisting of Ernie 3.0, Ernie 3.5, and Ernie 4.0. The training procedure starts from pre-training, discovering from trillions of information points and billions of understanding pieces. This was followed by improvement through supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning with human feedback, and trigger. [19]

Service

In its membership alternatives, the expert plan provides users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with reduced payment for auto-renewal per month. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is free of charge. [20]

Ernie 4.0, the language model for Ernie bot, has actually info upgraded to April 2023. [10]

Censorship

Ernie Bot goes through the Chinese federal government’s censorship program. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with reporters, Ernie Bot declined to answer concerns about Xi Jinping, the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and massacre, the persecution of Uyghurs in China in Xinjiang, and the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. [22] [24] [25] When queried about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, Ernie Bot mentioned that it stemmed among American vape users. [22]

See also

Artificial intelligence industry in China
ChatGPT
Google Gemini

References

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