Deccan Herald
Mar 27, 20231 min
The webcast, scheduled for Monday afternoon, was switched to a closed-door meeting
The reason behind the change in format was in order to satisfy the "strong demand" from 120,000 companies that had applied to test the Ernie bot, the company said, adding this would be the first of many closed-door meetings.
Ernie bot, so far China's closest answer to U.S.-developed ChatGPT, was launched on March 16 by Baidu CEO Robin Li, who gave a live-streamed presentation that walked journalists through a series of pre-recorded demos displaying the Chinese chatbot's different capabilities.
The company's share price dropped while the presentation was still being live-streamed but rebounded the following day, due in part to strong demand from the Chinese corporate sector for generative artificial intelligence (AI), the technology powering products like Ernie bot and ChatGPT.
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