Ernie Bot

Ernie Bot (Chinese: 文心一言, Pinyin: wénxīn yīyán), full name Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration,[1] is an AI chatbot service product of Baidu, released in 2023.

[5] The company's stock gained 14 percent on the next day after analysts from Citigroup and Bank of America tested Ernie Bot and gave it a preliminary thumbs-up.

[7] "Ernie 3.0", the language model, was trained with 10 billion parameters on a 4 terabyte (TB) corpus which consists of plain texts and a large-scale knowledge graph.

[13] In January 2024, Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post reported that a university research lab linked to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had tested Ernie Bot and iFlyTek's Spark for military response plans with scenarios involving the United States.

[16] In September 2024, Baidu gave everyone using the app access to the 4.0 Turbo model and also announced it would change its Chinese name from "Wenxin Yiyan" (文心一言) to "Wenxiaoyan" (文小言) positioning itself as a search assistant.