Chinese start-up Baichuan debuts AI assistant powered by upgraded LLM, eyes AI super app
- The self-developed Baichuan 4 LLM is currently ranked the highest on SuperCLUE, a benchmark test that specialises in evaluating Chinese LLMs
- The Baichuan bot, with the ability to follow up user queries to figure out their intentions, is expected to lower the barrier for chatbot use by local users
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Baichuan said the fourth iteration of its namesake Baichuan 4 model, unveiled on Wednesday in Beijing, is the most advanced large language model (LLM) launched by a Chinese company.
The Beijing-based firm’s self-developed Baichuan 4 LLM is currently ranked the highest on SuperCLUE, a benchmark test that specialises in evaluating Chinese LLMs, the company said.
The latest SuperCLUE ranking placed Baichuan 4 higher than GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3 Opus, the latest LLMs from Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Amazon-backed Anthropic, respectively, when it comes to measuring an AI model’s Chinese language capabilities.
GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3 Opus were launched in November and March respectively, representing the most sophisticated LLMs from the two US heavyweights among global AI start-ups.
Also unveiled at the Baichuan event was the company’s debut AI assistant service called Baixiaoying, which the company envisions will grow into an AI super app, according to Wang Xiaochuan, company founder and chief executive.
“The path to artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be driven by both a powerful LLM and a super app,” Wang said.