Chinese Big Tech to see big AI gains in social, educational and office use, report says
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Baidu has been baking its Ernie LLM into a number of services, including its search engine and online document sharing service Wenku. Similar to what Google has been doing with Gemini, Baidu search now gives AI-generated responses to user queries at the top of the results. Wenku can generate slide decks based on simple text prompts. These were the No 1 and No 3 most popular AI features in China, respectively, according to a ranking by aicpb.com, which tracks the popularity of AI services.
The versatility of LLMs has driven the current wave of AI adoption, according to the QuestMobile report. LLMs are trained on vast troves of data, which allows them to generate sophisticated results from queries in plain language. Combined with other GenAI technologies, they can produce text, images, audio and video responses, often with surprising results.
GenAI is also known to produce false information, or in the case of China, politically sensitive information. The country requires government approval for the public release of LLMs.
GenAI is also having an impact on hardware, the QuestMobile report notes, as smartphone and personal computer vendors turn to AI to lift sales.
AI-capable phones – typically those capable of running AI models on device by using processors dedicated to the task – are expected to make up 54 per cent of the global smartphone market by 2028, while 80 per cent of PCs priced above US$800 will be AI-capable by that year, according to Canalys, a market consultancy.
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