China's 'Ernie Bot' testing will finish by March

China's 'Ernie Bot' testing will finish by March

Technology

Baidu plans to launch service as stand alone application that will be included in its search engine later

BEIJING (Reuters) - Baidu Inc, the largest search engine in China, said on Tuesday that internal testing of the ChatGPT-inspired project "Ernie Bot" will be finished in March.

Baidu wants to introduce an artificial intelligence chatbot service like to OpenAI's ChatGPT in March, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke to Reuters last week.

Baidu plans to launch the service as a stand-alone application and eventually include it into its search engine, Reuters stated quoting a source.