Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal

Chinese AI continued to march onto the world stage this week, with Alibaba and Baidu both taking major strides. Let’s start with Baidu, which on Thursday announced its intention to make its Ernie Bot chatbot free, everywhere, from April 1st. The bot draws on the ERNIE 4.0 model which debuted in 2023 and was launched without …

[Zippy´s Sausage Factory]

It's the race to the bottom now. It's a race of "who can spend the most on AI" now, because fairly soon nobody's going to pay for it.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

That's why we have adopted the cunning strategy of spending the least on Ai