South China Morning Post

In January 2024, Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post reported that a university research laboratory connected to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had actually evaluated Ernie Bot and iFlyTek’s Spark for military action strategies with scenarios 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 accusations. [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 company likewise revealed its newest foundation model, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which boasts faster response times and enhanced efficiency. [16]

In September 2024, Baidu gave everybody using 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) positioning itself as a search assistant. [17] [18]

Training

Ernie Bot is based upon specific Ernie structure models, consisting of Ernie 3.0, Ernie 3.5, and Ernie 4.0. The training process begins from pre-training, learning from trillions of data points and billions of knowledge pieces. This was followed by improvement through supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning with human feedback, and trigger. [19]

Service

In its subscription choices, the professional plan gives users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with decreased payment for auto-renewal monthly. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is free of charge. [20]

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

Censorship

Ernie Bot is subject to the Chinese government’s censorship routine. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with reporters, Ernie Bot declined to address 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 demonstrations. [22] [24] [25] When queried about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, Ernie Bot mentioned that it came from among American vape users. [22]

See likewise

Artificial intelligence industry in China
ChatGPT
Google Gemini

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