China’s Baidu to launch ChatGPT-style bot in March – supply

BEIJING, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Chinese language web search main Baidu Inc (9888.HK) is planning to launch a synthetic intelligence (AI) chatbot service much like OpenAI’s ChatGPT in March, an individual accustomed to the matter advised Reuters.

The expertise agency plans to launch the service as a standalone software and step by step merge it into its search engine, stated the individual, who declined to be recognized as the knowledge is confidential.

ChatGPT’s expertise works by studying from huge quantities of knowledge reply prompts by customers in a human-like method, providing data like a search engine and even prose like an aspiring novelist.

Chatbots in China presently concentrate on social interplay whereas ChatGPT performs higher at extra skilled duties, resembling programming and essay writing.

Baidu plans to include chatbot-generated outcomes when customers make search requests, as an alternative of solely hyperlinks, the individual stated.

Baidu declined to remark.

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has a $1 billion funding in San Francisco-based OpenAI that it has checked out rising, Reuters has reported. The corporate has additionally labored so as to add OpenAI’s image-generation software program to its Bing search engine in a brand new problem to Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google.

Beijing-based Baidu has been investing closely in AI expertise, together with in cloud companies, chips and autonomous driving, because it seems to diversify its income sources.

At a developer convention final month, Baidu unveiled three AI-powered “creators” whose expertise permits them to imagine the roles of screenwriter, illustrator, editor or animator.

Reporting by Yingzhi Yang and Jyoti Narayan; Modifying by Dhanya Ann Thoppil and Christopher Cushing

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