TECH - ChatGPT's China Rival 'Ernie Bot' By Baidu Surpasses 200M Users Amid Fierce Competition | Benzinga
Ernie Bot, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by China’s Baidu Inc (NASDAQ:BIDU), has amassed over 200 million users, the company revealed on Tuesday.
What Happened: The number of users for the AI chatbot has doubled since the last update in December, reported Reuters. The chatbot was made available to the public eight months ago.
Baidu’s CEO Robin Li also disclosed that Ernie Bot’s application programming interface (API) is being used 200 million times every day. The chatbot has attracted 85,000 enterprise clients.
In February, Li informed analysts that Baidu had started generating revenue from Ernie. In the fourth quarter, the company earned several hundred million yuan by using AI to enhance its ad services and assist other companies in constructing their own models.
Ernie Bot was the first locally developed ChatGPT-like chatbot to be announced in China last March. However, it only received approval for public release in August, ...