The number of users of artificial intelligence solutions in China reached 230 million by the end of June, reports SCMP, citing the CNNIC.
Baidu’s Ernie bot is the most widely used product, accounting for 11.5% of users. It can generate text in Chinese and other languages, analyze data, summarize information, write articles, assist in programming, generate images, and perform other tasks similar to other popular AI bots.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is used by 7% of Chinese users, and Google’s Gemini by 3.8%, even though both American services are officially unavailable in mainland China. Approximately one in six Chinese citizens engages with AI products.
Nearly two-thirds of users employ large language models to get answers to questions. The remainder rely on neural networks as work assistants.
As of November, 309 AI-based services are registered in China, with 96 in Beijing and 84 in Shanghai. All major tech firms have launched their own neural networks.
Meanwhile, Chinese companies face hardware limitations due to actions from Washington, which prohibits American firms from importing advanced graphics processors to China.
Previously, Alibaba launched a group of large language models (LLM) focused on mathematics called Qwen2-Math, which “surpass GPT-4o and Claude 3.5” in this field.
In July, Kuaishou opened its video-generating AI model Kling to the public.
China leads in the adoption of generative artificial intelligence.