Apple cheating on Siri with Ernie Bot to satisfy its AI needs in China

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Daniel, a devoted tech writer at PhoneArena since 2010, has been engrossed in mobile technology since the Windows Mobile era. His expertise spans mobile hardware, software, and carrier networks, and he's keenly interested in the future of digital health, car connectivity, and 5G.

went to China to open a new flagship store in Shanghai, he also used the time to make deals that will tailor the iPhone better to the Chinese market.lauded the local manufacturers that make the iPhone and its green manufacturing possible.

Baidu has been developing its AI-powered chatbot service since 2019, and last October it announced Ernie 4.0, the large language model on which the iPhone's Earnie Bot will be based in China. Even before that announcement, however, Apple's Siri virtual assistant searches defaulted to Baidu in China, rather than Google as in the rest of the globe. Apple's iPhone sales in China, however, are down nearly 25% since the beginning of the year, and this is a rather unprecedented slump, so it is apparently trying to placate the local market any way it can.

Samsung suffered a similar fate in China not long ago when it adopter Baidu's large language Earnie model for the AI duties on itsIt remains to be seen if these local AI adaptations will result in Apple or Samsung's market share stabilizing in China, as well as how will Baidu's Earnie Bot perform compared to its main competitor, ChatGPT.A discussion is a place, where people can voice their opinion, no matter if it is positive, neutral or negative.

 

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