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ChatGPT has quickly become the gold standard that other AI chatbots are striving to reach and beat. Now, according to a bold statement from Chinese tech giant Baidu, another AI has apparently done just that.
Baidu announced that the latest version of its ‘Ernie’ AI model, Ernie 3.5, has already outperformed ChatGPT in several key metrics. business today, Baidu, China’s leading search engine, said that Ernie 3.5 outperforms ChatGPT in both comprehensive capability scores and general performance in Chinese language tasks.
It backs up these claims by citing a test by the state newspaper China Science Daily, which essentially used a dataset of two benchmarks for AI performance – AGIEval and C-Eval. ChatGPT maker OpenAI apparently did not respond to Business Today regarding these claims at the time of this writing.
Baidu also said that its latest Ernie model features advanced training and inference efficiency, which it claims will make subsequent AI faster and more cost-efficient. Finally, the new model will support plugins, add-on applications that can perform additional tasks – such as summarizing longer text or generating more precise answers.
TechRadar has also reached out for comment regarding Baidu’s claims against OpenAI’s ChatGPT and will update this story when we hear back.
Baidu ChatGPT…and competing with Google?
It is important to note that although there is no official English release for Ernie, Baidu’s main search engine platform itself is available in the English language. The fact that it has English versions of its other services may suggest that it would be interested in bringing its Ernie AI model to the West – and certainly would be able to.
Such a move would be interesting, not just to see how well its Ernie 3.5 In fact It has to compete against ChatGPT, but also remains to be seen how the company will deal with another rival – Google.
Google is the most popular search engine in the world, with a market share of over 90%. Naturally, it’s taking advantage of that reach by integrating its own AI model, Bard, into its search results — not to mention incorporating it elsewhere in its Google Workspace suite, bolstering the software’s capabilities with AI. Doing.
Baidu is China’s answer to Google (they also have Baidu Maps), and it could easily do this, leveraging its AI model to complement its search engine and as a standalone AI service. Could pique interest in Ernie.
Of course, this would put it in direct conflict with Google, which could result in some pretty intense competition – but competition can only ultimately help consumers, so I welcome the idea with all my heart.
