Baidu reveals plans to launch ChatGPT-style AI chatbot ‘Ernie’

Chinese tech-giant Baidu said it would finish internal testing of its own ChatGPT-style AI chatbot called ‘Ernie Bot’ in March, joining tech companies around the world in the race to develop generative AI technology.

Ernie, meaning “Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration,” is a large AI-powered language model introduced in 2019, Baidu said. It has gradually grown to be able to perform tasks including language understanding, language generation, and text-to-image generation, it added.