South China Morning Post

In January 2024, Hong Kong paper South China Morning Post reported that a university research laboratory connected to individuals’s Liberation Army (PLA) had actually tested Ernie Bot and iFlyTek’s Spark for military action strategies with situations involving the United States. After its listed stock in Hong Kong plunged by more than 11.5 percent, Baidu made a main statement denying the accusations. [11]

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

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

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

Training

Ernie Bot is based on particular Ernie foundation models, including Ernie 3.0, Ernie 3.5, and Ernie 4.0. The training process begins with pre-training, learning from trillions of data points and billions of understanding pieces. This was followed by refinement through supervised fine-tuning, support learning with human feedback, and trigger. [19]

Service

In its membership alternatives, the expert strategy gives 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 totally free of charge. [20]

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

Censorship

Ernie Bot undergoes the Chinese government’s censorship program. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with journalists, Ernie Bot declined to respond to concerns 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 specified that it originated among American vape users. [22]

See also

Expert system market in China
ChatGPT
Google Gemini

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