Baidu Claims Ernie Bot Garnered Over 200 Million Users Amid Rising Competition

Baidu has claimed that its Ernie Bot has gained over 200 million users in China, even as the search giant faces rising comeptition from other generative AI chatbots in the country. Ernie Bot was the first locally developed ChatGPT-like chatbot to be announced in China, but it only won approval for public release in August, one of the first eight AI chatbots that Beiji...