Chinese tech giant Baidu has announced that its generative AI product ERNIE Bot is now open to the public through various app stores and its website. ERNIE Bot can generate text, images, and videos based on natural language inputs. It is powered by ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration), a powerful deep learning model. The first version of ERNIE was introduced and open-sourced in 2019 by researchers at Tsinghua University to demonstrate the natural language understanding capabilities of a model that combines both text and knowledge graph data. Later that year, Baidu released ERNIE 2.0 which became the first model...