South China Morning Post

In January 2024, Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post reported that a university research lab connected to individuals’s Liberation Army (PLA) had actually evaluated Ernie Bot and iFlyTek’s Spark for military response strategies with situations involving the United States. After its noted stock in Hong Kong plunged by more than 11.5 percent, Baidu made an official declaration rejecting the allegations. [11]

Ernie was incorporated for the Chinese launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup. [14] [15]

In June 2024, Baidu announced that Ernie Bot had actually reached 300 million users. The business likewise revealed its latest foundation design, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which boasts faster response times and enhanced efficiency. [16]

In September 2024, Baidu offered everyone utilizing the app access to the 4.0 Turbo design and likewise revealed it would change its Chinese name from “Wenxin Yiyan” (文心一言) to “Wenxiaoyan” (文小言) placing itself as a search assistant. [17] [18]

Training

Ernie Bot is based on specific Ernie foundation designs, consisting of Ernie 3.0, Ernie 3.5, and Ernie 4.0. The training procedure begins with pre-training, gaining from trillions of data points and billions of understanding pieces. This was followed by improvement through monitored fine-tuning, reinforcement learning with human feedback, and trigger. [19]

Service

In its subscription choices, the expert strategy provides users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with reduced payment for auto-renewal monthly. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is complimentary of charge. [20]

Ernie 4.0, the language design for Ernie bot, knows updated to April 2023. [10]

Censorship

Ernie Bot goes through the Chinese federal government’s censorship regime. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with journalists, Ernie Bot declined to respond to questions about Xi Jinping, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the persecution of Uyghurs in China in Xinjiang, and the 2019-2020 Hong Kong demonstrations. [22] [24] [25] When queried about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, Ernie Bot stated that it came from amongst American vape users. [22]

See also

Artificial intelligence market in China
ChatGPT
Google Gemini

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