Baidu is a dominant search engine in China. (Image: Reuters)
Baidu Inc, China’s main search engine supplier, mentioned the most recent iteration of its ChatGPTstyle service had surpassed the extensively standard Microsoftbacked OpenAI chatbot on a number of key metrics.
Baidu Inc, China’s main search engine supplier, mentioned the most recent iteration of its ChatGPT-style service had surpassed the extensively standard Microsoft-backed OpenAI chatbot on a number of key metrics.
Baidu mentioned in a press release on Tuesday that Ernie 3.5, the most recent model of its Ernie AI mannequin, had surpassed “ChatGPT in comprehensive ability scores” and outperformed “GPT-4 in several Chinese capabilities”.
The Beijing-based firm cited a check that the state newspaper China Science Daily ran utilizing datasets together with AGIEval and C-Eval, two benchmarks used to judge the efficiency of synthetic intelligence (AI) fashions.
OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to an e-mail looking for remark outdoors of regular enterprise hours.
The Baidu announcement comes amid a world AI buzz kicked off by ChatGPT that has unfold to China, prompting a flurry of home firms to announce rival merchandise.
Baidu was the primary massive Chinese tech firm to debut a AI product to rival ChatGPT when it unveiled its language AI Ernie Bot in March. Ernie Bot, constructed on Baidu’s older Ernie 3.0 AI mannequin, has been in invite-solely checks for the previous three months.
Other massive Chinese tech corporations, together with Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings, have all since revealed their respective AI fashions.
Baidu mentioned its new mannequin comes with higher coaching and inference effectivity, which positions it for sooner and cheaper iterations sooner or later. Baidu additionally mentioned its new mannequin would assist exterior “plugins”.
Plugins are further purposes that can permit Baidu’s AI to work on extra particular eventualities resembling summarizing lengthy textual content and producing extra exact solutions.
ChatGPT rolled out plugin assist in March.
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