China’s Baidu currently has 300 million users of its ChatGPT alternative ERNIE Bot, the company’s chief technology officer Wang Haifeng announced at Wave Summit 2024, at which the search giant teased the latest version of its AI foundation model ERNIE 4.0 Turbo. The country’s most popular AI tool, ERNIE Bot broke the 100-million-user milestone in December 2023, four months after being approved to provide generative AI services to the public, successfully doubling the figure in April. Wang said Baidu’s AI bot handles 500 million queries a day. The new model can be accessed via the official website and app, with corporate clients able to call the API of Baidu’s most advanced model directly within its AI Cloud Qianfan platform, according to Baidu. [Baidu, in Chinese]
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