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Summary
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- ERNIE is a multimodal model by Baidu. ERNIE stands for ‘Enhanced Representation from kNowledge IntEgration’. The Chinese name is 文心一言, or Wenxin Yiyan. – via MIT (16/Mar/2023).
- 2022: Baidu spent total US$3.4 billion on research and development.
- 650 companies have signed up to use ERNIE Bot (including Sina Finance and Baixin Bank), which can be implemented in a variety of applications such as searches, AI cloud, autonomous driving and in smart devices. – via WP (16/Mar/2023)
- ERNIE Bot was released on 16/Mar/2023. Invitations to the event were written by ERNIE Bot (via Baidu).
- ERNIE Bot = ERNIE Titan 260B + Plato-XL 11B.
- Five major abilities:
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- Literary creation.
- Commercial copywriting.
- Mathematical logic calculation.
- Chinese comprehension.
- Multi-modal generation.
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ERNIE Timeline
Papers
ERNIE 1.0 (2019): https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09223
ERNIE 2.0 (2019): https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12412
ERNIE 3.0 Titan 260B (2021): https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12731
ERNIE-ViLG 2.0 (2022): https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15257
ERNIE Bot (2023): Parameters not disclosed, based on ERNIE Titan 260B + Plato-XL 11B.
ERNIE 3.5 (2023): Retrieval capability only. Paper TBA.
ERNIE Bot was trained on the Baidu Kunlun II AI Chip (equivalent to NVIDIA A100) produced by Samsung.
Demo
https://www.cnet.com/videos/baidu-unveils-ernie-ai-bots-multimodal-creation-capabilities/
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