Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, today hosted its annual flagship technology conference Baidu World 2023 in Beijing, marking the conference's return to an offline format after four years. With the theme "Prompt the World," this year's Baidu World conference saw Baidu launch ERNIE 4.0, Baidu's next-generation and most powerful foundation model offering drastically enhanced core AI capabilities. Baidu also showcased some of its most popular applications, solutions, and products re-built around the company's state-of-the-art generative AI. Robin Li, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Baidu, announced ERNIE 4.0 at Baidu World 2023 "ERNIE 4.0 has achieved a full upgrade with drastically improved performance in understanding, generation, reasoning, and memory," Robin Li, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Baidu, said at the event. "These four core capabilities form the foundation of AI-native applications and have now unleashed unlimited opportunities for new innovations."
Notes: Unlikely to be >1e25 FLOP, ERNIE 4.5 was <1e25 FLOP. may be mentioned here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYozcsavRuM
Notes: "similar architecture with 3.5 version" -interpreter dub at 01:25:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYozcsavRuM