This has prompted many tech firms to double down on heavily promoted generative AI technology, which until recently existed more in the background as a tangible contributor to the bottom line.
Google owner Alphabet Inc said on Monday it would launch a chatbot service and more AI for its search engine, while Microsoft on Tuesday laid out plans for its own AI to lead a new wave of computing. Underlines the growing rivalry.
Baidu, China’s answer to Google, joined the frenzy on Tuesday.
Ernie, or “advanced representation through knowledge integration”, is a large AI-powered language model introduced in 2019, and gradually expanded to include tasks including language understanding, language generation and text-to-image generation, it said. has been able to do.
A person with knowledge of the matter told Reuters last week that Baidu plans to launch such a service in March.
The person said Baidu aims to make the service available as a standalone application and gradually merge it into its search engine by including chatbot-generated results when users make search requests.
