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  • Founded Date September 8, 1996
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Company Description

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In January 2024, Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post reported that a university research laboratory linked to individuals’s Liberation Army (PLA) had tested Ernie Bot and iFlyTek’s Spark for military response plans with circumstances involving the United States. After its listed stock in Hong Kong plunged by more than 11.5 percent, Baidu made an official declaration denying 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 actually reached 300 million users. The business likewise revealed its most current foundation design, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which boasts faster action times and improved efficiency. [16]

In September 2024, Baidu offered everybody using the app access to the 4.0 Turbo model and likewise announced it would change its Chinese name from “Wenxin Yiyan” (文心一言) to “Wenxiaoyan” (文小言) positioning itself as a search assistant. [17] [18]

Training

Ernie Bot is based upon specific Ernie foundation designs, consisting of Ernie 3.0, Ernie 3.5, and Ernie 4.0. The training process begins from pre-training, gaining from trillions of data points and billions of knowledge pieces. This was followed by improvement through monitored fine-tuning, support knowing with human feedback, and trigger. [19]

Service

In its subscription options, the expert strategy gives users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with lower payment for auto-renewal each month. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is free of charge. [20]

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

Censorship

Ernie Bot is subject to the Chinese federal government’s censorship program. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with journalists, Ernie Bot declined to answer questions about Xi Jinping, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests 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 stated that it came from among American vape users. [22]

See likewise

Expert system market in China
ChatGPT
Google Gemini

References

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^ Ben Jiang (2024-09-04). “Baidu rebrands flagship AI chatbot to stand out from competitors”. South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
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