Baidu Inc (9888. HK), China’s largest search engine, said its latest ChatGPT-style service outperformed Microsoft’s OpenAI chatbot on various measures.
On Tuesday, Baidu announced that Ernie 3.5, its latest AI model, exceeded “ChatGPT in comprehensive ability scores” and “GPT-4 in several Chinese capabilities”.
The Beijing-based company referenced a state publication, China Science Daily test utilizing datasets from AGIEval and C-Eval, two standards for AI model performance.
An email to OpenAI outside business hours went unanswered.
The Baidu launch follows a global AI buzz started by ChatGPT, which has moved to China, leading a rush of domestic startups to introduce competing technologies.
In March, Baidu launched its language AI Ernie Bot, the first major Chinese tech company to compete with ChatGPT. For three months, Baidu’s Ernie Bot, based on Ernie 3.0, has been in invite-only testing.
Alibaba Group (9988. HK) and Tencent Holdings (0700. HK) also showed their AI models.
Baidu said its new model has greater training and inference efficiency, enabling faster and cheaper iterations. Baidu also announced its new model would accept external “plugins.”
Plugins will help Baidu’s AI summarize long texts and provide more accurate answers. March saw ChatGPT support plugins.
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