Ernie Bot
Ernie Bot (, ), full name Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration, is an AI chatbot service product of Baidu, under development since 2019. It is based on a large language model named "Ernie 4.0", announced on October 17, 2023. The markets did not respond favorably.

On March 20, 2023, Baidu announced on its official WeChat that Wenxin Yiyin cloud service was supposed to be available on March 27, but the launch was delayed to an unknown date. Baidu launched Wenxin Qianfan, an enterprise-level large language model service platform. Wenxin Qianfan includes not only Wenxin Yiyin but also a full set of Baidu's Wenxin Big Model, and the corresponding development tool chain.

Ernie Bot is subject to the Chinese government's censorship regime. In public tests with journalists, Ernie Bot refused to answer questions about Xi Jinping, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang, and the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests.

History 
Ernie Bot was initially released on March 17, 2023, based on "Ernie 3.0 Titan".

An Ernie Bot upgrade to "Ernie 4.0" was announced on October 17, 2023.

References

See also
 ChatGPT
 Google Bard

Chatbots
Baidu
Large language models

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