Chinese multinational technology company Baidu announced that its latest AI model, Ernie 3.5, is outperforming OpenAI’s latest human-like bot, ChatGPT, and GPT-4 in several Chinese capabilities. According to Baidu, Ernie 3.5 has surpassed ChatGPT in comprehensive ability scores, and this new model’s better training and inference efficiency will position it for faster and cheaper iterations in the future. The Chinese newspaper China Science Daily conducted tests on Ernie 3.5 using datasets like AGIEval and C-Eval, two benchmarks used to evaluate the performance of AI models. This announcement comes amid the global AI buzz that ChatGPT initiated, prompting many companies worldwide to announce rival products.
Ernie Bot, the predecessor of Ernie 3.5, had been in invite-only tests for the past three months, while other big Chinese tech companies like Alibaba Group and Tencent have also made their own AI models. However, Baidu was the first big Chinese tech company to launch an AI product to rival ChatGPT when it unveiled its language AI Ernie Bot in March.
Baidu’s new model will support external plugins like additional applications that will enable Baidu’s AI to work on more specific scenarios such as summarising long text and generating more precise answers. As technology giants like Google, Apple and Microsoft race to take precedence in their artificial intelligence products, the AI race has unrolled after OpenAI launched its advanced chatbot. It posed severe competition to other technology giants, forcing them to jump into the race and incorporate AI-powered products into their services.
In summary, Baidu’s latest AI model, Ernie 3.5, outperforms OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT and GPT-4 in several Chinese capabilities, according to the Chinese multinational technology company. Ernie Bot was already launched earlier this year to rival ChatGPT, with other Chinese companies following suit. This AI race began after OpenAI launched its own advanced chatbot with many technology giants wanting to be the frontrunners in incorporating AI-powered products into their services.
