ChatGPT chatbot has more competitors. Bard was first released by Google and was developed by xAI Elon Musk Grok, and now Ernie—a product of Chinese tech giant Baidu—are gaining ground.
100 million subscribers Ernie
At the end of the week, Baidu announced that its artificial intelligence model Ernie had surpassed 100 million users. The Chinese launched their chatbot in March and received regulatory approval for mass implementation at the end of August.
While boasting about the success, the Chinese company's chief technology officer Wang Haifeng did not specify whether he was talking about the total number of users or the weekly activity. American company OpenAI (creator of ChatGPT) announced in November that their product has around 100 million weekly active users.
It will answer, but not all questions
Chatbot Ernie is not officially available in China, but it can be used in Chinese. An English version is also available. In November, Baidu began charging fees (about $8 per month) for the most advanced version of the Ernie bot. ChatGPT, on the other hand, charges $20 per month to use the latest model.
It was recently reported in the media that Ernie refuses to answer questions about unpleasant events and some figures in the world of politics. Some users who asked uncomfortable questions should be blocked. During public tests, the chatbot refused to respond to Xi Jinping's Tiananmen Square protests. Genocide of the Uighurs Or the protests in Hong Kong.
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