Shares of Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) soared by more than 10% in pre-market trading on Tuesday after the Chinese tech company stated that it was testing out a ChatGPT-style bot called “Ernie Bot” and expected to complete the testing by March.
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Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration (ERNIE) is Baidu’s AI-powered language model that was first introduced in 2019.
The market for ChatGPT-style chatbots is heating up with GOOGL also entering the ChatGPT race and SoundHound and C3ai also making big strides in this competition.
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Analysts are cautiously optimistic about BIDU stock with a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on 15 Buys, five Holds and one Sell.