Baidu, which operates China’s biggest search engine and is an artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer, beat revenue estimates for the first quarter in the company’s first earnings report since it launched its alternative to ChatGPT in March, reports the South China Morning Post. The Beijing-based company reported revenue of RMB 31.1 billion ($4.5 billion) for the…
The new AI Mate chatbot, which is powered by Baidu's Ernie Bot service, has been revealed by the Chinese tech giant. The restrictions imposed by AI Mate highlight the fine line that Chinese IT companies must walk in order to comply with Beijing's efforts to control the creation of generative AI services.
Latest news and updates on ChatGPT, a conversational bot that Microsoft-backed OpenAI unveiled in November 2022, which is able to understand sophisticated questions and give surprisingly humanlike text responses; focusing on the implications of the chatbot, the challenges it could pose China’s censors, possible bans by educational institutions, AI regulation, and the development of similar software by competitors.
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