The latest news say that Baidu is set to launch an AI image generator and an innovative tool that allows users to develop their software applications without coding skills.
Currently, Baidu represents China’s leading company in search engines and among other companies, plans to shift its focus to the commercialization of a large language model known as LLM. So, after almost two years of heavy investments in research and development models to make an alternative for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Baidu is more focused on commercializing the LLMs.
The CEO Robin Li introduced the annual Baidu Conference, the I-RAG which represents a text-to-image AI technology that benefits from the company search capabilities to handle the “hallucination issue”. This issue refers to the AI picture generator that sometimes deviates from the input text or also contains non-existent elements when providing different AI photos.
According to CEO Robin Li, Baidu’s Ernie platform is now able to handle about 1.5 billion user requests and interactions every day, which represents an important increase from 200 million queries daily reported back in May this year.
These daily requests and interactions involve various tasks such as an AI generator for texts, answering questions, or assisting with various applications powered by artificial intelligence. Besides these, the company also managed to integrate its technology into the already existing product line and offered it to external customers and users through cloud services.
And the same Baidu conference, the company also revealed a pair of glasses powered by an AI assistant. It seems that this device was developed by the hardware division Xiaodu and includes cameras to capture AI photos and videos and also supports a voice interaction powered by the Ernie platform.
Robin Li said that currently, Baidu does not want to create a “super app” based on artificial intelligence. This strategy is not actually similar to other competitors such as ByteDance. It should be mentioned that the China-based ByteDance has launched this year multiple independent AI apps.
The last tool introduced at the annual conference is represented by Miaoda, which uses the company’s LLM capabilities to generate code. So, this tool allows users to develop various software applications without having a complex coding experience.
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