ERNIE is a multimodal model by Baidu. ERNIE stands for ‘Enhanced Representation from kNowledge IntEgration’. The Chinese name is 文心一言, or Wenxin Yiyan. In 2022, Baidu spent US$3.4 billion on research and development.
Alan Thompson believes that ERNIE 4.0 is better than OpenAI GPT 4 by several measures.
650 companies have signed up to use ERNIE Bot (including Sina Finance and Baixin Bank), which can be implemented in a variety of applications such as searches, AI cloud, autonomous driving and in smart devices. –
ERNIE Bot = ERNIE Titan 260B + Plato-XL 11B
Five major abilities:
Literary creation.
Commercial copywriting.
Mathematical logic calculation.
Chinese comprehension.
Multi-modal generation.
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