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Number of users has nearly doubled since the company's last update in December
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China's Baidu (9888.HK) said on Tuesday its artificial intelligence chatbot “Erniebot” aims to remain China's most popular ChatGPT-like chatbot amid increasing competition. announced that it had acquired over 200 million users.
Since the company's last update (in December), the number of users has nearly doubled. This chatbot was released to the public eight months ago.
Baidu CEO Robin Li also said that Ernie Bot's application programming interface (API) is used 200 million times every day, which means chatbots are requested by users to perform tasks many times a day. I said it means that.
At a conference in Shenzhen, Li said the number of chatbot enterprise customers has reached 85,000 companies.
In February, he told analysts that Baidu was starting to generate revenue from Arnie, and that in the fourth quarter the company was leveraging AI to improve its advertising services and help other companies build their own models, generating hundreds of millions of yuan. He said he earned .
In March last year, Ernie Bot was the first locally developed ChatGPT-like chatbot announced in China, but it was approved for publication in August, making it one of the first eight AI chats approved by the Chinese government. It was one of the bots.
Unlike many other countries, China requires companies to obtain approval before deploying generative AI services.
Recent data shows that competing domestic AI services, particularly the chatbot Kimi from 12-month-old Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot AI, are rapidly catching up with Ernie Bot.
According to data from AIcpb.com, a site that tracks user visits to online AI services, Arnie Bott's apps and websites across apps and websites had a total of 14.9 million visits last month, compared to Kimi's total visits in the same month. It was 12.6 million times. .
And Kimi's growth has been much faster, with March visits up 321.6% from February and visits to Ernie Bot up more than 48%, data shows.
Globally, China's generative AI services still lag far behind those in the West. OpenAI's ChatGPT remains the world's most popular generative AI service, with total traffic increasing 9% to 1.86 billion views last month, according to AIcpb.com.
China has been accelerating the approval of AI services in recent months, emphasizing that AI is a key technology sector in which it must compete with the US.Last week, state media reported that 117 large AI models have been approved so far. reported that it had been received.
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