Recap | ByteDance AI bot becomes No 1 in China, AMD cuts 1,000 jobs to battle Nvidia and more top tech stories

Recap | ByteDance AI bot becomes No 1 in China, AMD cuts 1,000 jobs to battle Nvidia and more top tech stories

1. ByteDance’s ChatGPT-like Doubao AI bot becomes No 1 in China with 51 million users Doubao has become China’s top AI app with 51 million active users, surpassing competitors like Baidu’s Wenxiaoyan and Alibaba’s Kimi. Free and versatile, it excels in various tasks including text, image, audio and video generation, and data analysis, making it…

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Baidu rebrands Ernie Bot as Wenxiaoyan in China to stand out from AI rivals

Baidu rebrands Ernie Bot as Wenxiaoyan in China to stand out from AI rivals

Baidu on Wednesday announced a rebranding of its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) app Ernie Bot, as the Chinese technology giant tries to distinguish itself in an increasingly crowded and competitive market. The Chinese renaming of Ernie Bot to “Wenxiaoyan” from “Wenxin Yiyan” reflects the tool’s positioning as a “new search” assistant, according to Xue Su,…

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