Vue d'ensemble
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Date de création 15 août 2025
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Secteurs Logistique
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Offres de stage et d'emploi 0
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Nombre d'employés 101-500
Description de l'entreprise
South China Morning Post
In January 2024, Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post reported that a university research study lab connected to individuals’s Liberation Army (PLA) had actually evaluated Ernie Bot and iFlyTek’s Spark for military response strategies with circumstances including the United States. After its listed stock in Hong Kong plunged by more than 11.5 percent, Baidu made an official statement denying the claims. [11]
Ernie was integrated 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 newest structure model, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which boasts quicker action times and improved performance. [16]
In September 2024, Baidu gave everybody using the app access to the 4.0 Turbo design and also revealed it would alter 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 specific Ernie foundation models, consisting of 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 knowledge pieces. This was followed by improvement through supervised fine-tuning, support learning with human feedback, and prompt. [19]
Service
In its membership options, the expert strategy gives users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with lower payment for auto-renewal each month. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is totally free of charge. [20]
Ernie 4.0, the language model for Ernie bot, knows updated to April 2023. [10]
Censorship
Ernie Bot goes through the Chinese federal government’s censorship routine. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with reporters, Ernie Bot declined to answer concerns about Xi Jinping, the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and massacre, the persecution of Uyghurs in China in Xinjiang, and the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. [22] [24] [25] When queried about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, Ernie Bot specified that it originated amongst American vape users. [22]
See also
Expert system industry in China
ChatGPT
Google Gemini
References
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^ a b c “Meet Ernie, China’s answer to ChatGPT”. The Economist. 3 September 2023. ISSN 0013-0613. Archived from the initial on 2023-09-03. Retrieved 2023-09-03. On matters of politics, by contrast, the chatbot is rather quiet. Ernie is confused by questions such as “Who is China’s president?” and will inform you the name of Xi Jinping’s mother, however not those of his brother or sisters. It draws a blank if inquired about the downsides of socialism. It often tries to redirect delicate conversations by stating: “Let’s speak about something else.” Ernie’s reticence will come as no shock to Chinese users acquainted with a heavily censored web.
^ Feng, Emily (May 29, 2024). “Why China, and now Taiwan, are making their own chatbots utilizing their own data”. NPR. Retrieved May 29, 2024. ERNIE, established by Chinese internet company Baidu. But ERNIE needs to follow Chinese censorship guidelines and political mores, including, for instance, stating in answers that Taiwan belongs to China – since just training a model on data from China might make a pro-China LLM.
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