Baidu claims its Ernie Bot now beats ChatGPT on key measures

Baidu hopes Ernie Bot – built atop its years of investment, research and development in AI technology – will become the next must-have app in the world’s largest Internet arena, luring users back from all-in-one platforms like Tencent’s WeChat. — Reuters

Baidu Inc’s ChatGPT-style service has outperformed OpenAI’s seminal product on several measures, China’s search leader said on June 27.

Ernie 3.5, the latest iteration of Baidu’s foundation model, has surpassed OpenAI’s chatbot built on GPT-3.5 in general abilities and outperformed the more advanced GPT-4 on several Chinese-language capabilities, the company said in a statement. It cited a test by the state newspaper China Science Daily, based on datasets including AGIEval and C-Eval, benchmarks designed for evaluating such AI models.