The technology company Baidu, owner of China’s most widely used search engine, is completing the testing phase of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) application similar to ChatGPT, which it plans to launch in March.
In a statement, the company announced that the application will be renamed ERNIE Bot internationally. ERNIE is a language model introduced by Baidu in 2019, whose name is derived from the English phrase Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration.
Baidu’s announcement comes just hours after US tech company Google, based in the United States, unveiled its own conversational AI system, called Bard. developed ChatGPT.
“Currently, no company in China has the same level of technology [em Inteligência Artificial] than Baidu, especially in natural language processing,” the company said in a statement.
Shares of Baidu rose as high as 14.41% during the first part of today’s session on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, showing investor optimism with the news, which had already been highlighted in the international press in recent days, but that is not confirmed by the company until today.
Source: DN
