Number one downloads on iPhone less than twelve hours after it went online: Chinese netizens rushed Thursday to the application Ernie Bot, a clone of ChatGPT published by the local giant of search engines, Baidu. The general public had reason to be curious. While the rest of the world can converse with OpenAI's text-generating AI (artificial intelligence) since its release in November, the US platform is inaccessible in China. Baidu wasn't the only one to make such a launch. Startups Zhipu AI and Baichuan Intelligent Technology also released their chatbots on Thursday, as did Chinese AI specialist SenseTime and social media king ByteDance (TikTok).
A few hours earlier, these groups received marketing authorization from the powerful cyberspace administration, which would have given the green light to 8 companies. The Middle Kingdom has set itself the goal of being one of the leaders of...
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