Baidu will launch a powerful rival ChatGPT
Chinese web giant Baidu prepares to launch a mighty ChatGPT rival in March.
Baidu is often referred to as the “Google of China” because it offers similar services including search, maps, email, advertisements, cloud storage, and more. Baidu, like Google, is also investing heavily in AI and machine learning.
Earlier this month, AI News reported that Google was changing its AI review processes to speed up the release of new solutions. One of the first products to launch under Google’s new process is expected to be a rival to ChatGPT, which is expected to be announced at the company’s show. I/O developer conference in May.
However, Baidu looks set to beat Google by a few months.
Bloomberg reports that Baidu will unveil its own AI-powered chatbot in March. The currently unnamed tool will be integrated into the company’s search product.
Baidu’s competitor ChatGPT is powered by ‘ERNIE’ (Enhanced Language Representation with Informative Entities), a powerful AI model with 10 billion parameters.
Researchers have found that deep learning models trained on text alone — like OpenAI’s GPT-3 or Google’s T5 — work well for many problems, but can fail in some natural language understanding tasks. (NLU) when the knowledge is not present in the input. text.
The first version of ERNIE was introduced and open sourced in 2019 by researchers at Tsinghua University to demonstrate the NLU capabilities of a model that combines both text data and knowledge graph data.
Later that year, Baidu released ERNIE 2.0 which became the first model set a score above 90 on the GLUE benchmark for evaluating NLU systems.
In 2021, Baidu researchers published a paper on ERNIE 3.0 in which they claim that the model exceeds human performance on the great glue natural language reference. ERNIE 3.0 set a new high score on SuperGLUE and shifted efforts from Google and Microsoft.
So far, the world’s attention has mainly focused on advances in language models such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. However, Baidu will likely get its time in the spotlight in just a few months.
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Baidu will launch a powerful rival ChatGPT
