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China tech companies are closely watching ChatGPT’s A.I. skills
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Big tech companies in the U.S. and China rushed this month to announce they are working on similar AI tools. Their announcements often referenced Microsoft-backed ChatGPT, while disclosing few details on what they themselves were working on.
The artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT has taken the tech world by storm in the last few months with its ability to generate everything from poems to business strategies in a human-like conversation.
Still, analysts say the tech is transformative, something that’s also been said about blockchain and the metaverse.
Competitive landscape
Here’s what companies — including those in China — are doing in this specialized area of AI:U.S. startup OpenAI raced to beat rivals by launching ChatGPT in November, according to The New York Times, citing sources. The public interface skyrocketed in popularity for everything from homework help to strategy development.
An OpenAI spokesperson said the company did not have anything to add regarding the Times’ report.The funding is critical. Every ChatGPT conversation costs a few cents to complete, the startup’s chief executive said in December.
Microsoft plans to revamp its little-used Bing search engine with tech from OpenAI in a bid to compete with Google. But early users of “Bing AI” report inaccuracies and creepy conversations with the chatbot.
Google’s rush to announce its AI-based search tool Bard also revealed mistakes. The company asked staff to rewrite wrong answers, CNBC reported.
Apple
has kept quiet about its AI plans, reportedly not saying anything about ChatGPT-related tech at an internal artificial intelligence event. Apple did not respond to a request for comment.ChatGPT for business software
Database software startup PingCap already has a ChatGPT-based product on the market. The company has offices in Beijing and San Mateo, California.PingCap launched “Chat2Query” for customers outside China in January that uses a publicly available application programming interface from OpenAI.
The product lets clients analyze in seconds their companies’ operating data — such as best-selling car models — without needing to know a computer programming language, said Liu Song, vice president of PingCap. He said Chat2Query is free for clients processing up to 5 gigabytes of data.
“We think the revolution may not be in AI search but in every business,” he said in Mandarin, translated by CNBC. However, he noted that those data need to be organized in a standardized way.
Baidu
, the Chinese search engine and tech giant, said Wednesday its AI chatbot project will be embedded into search first, and opened to the public in March.
The product is named “Ernie bot” in English or “Wenxin Yiyan” in Chinese, the company said previously.While little is known about Ernie bot’s capabilities — and how they compare with ChatGPT’s — Baidu-backed video streaming platform iQiyi
has announced plans for connecting to the bot for search and AI-generated content. Baidu-backed electric car startup Jidu — which hasn’t started delivering cars yet — also said it plans to incorporate Ernie bot.Alibaba
is scheduled to release quarterly earnings on Thursday evening. The Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant said it is internally testing ChatGPT-style technology, and did not provide a timeline for launch. However, Alibaba said it has been working on related AI tech since 2017.Chinese e-commerce rival JD.com
did not have a launch date either, but said its “ChatJD” will focus on retail and finance. It will assist with tasks such as generating product summaries on shopping sites and financial analysis, the company said.