Deployment reach

Baidu opens ERNIE Bot to the Chinese public

Baidu made ERNIE Bot publicly available through its website and mobile application after regulatory approval, and the app reached the top of China's free iOS chart that day.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM49confidence 95/100

Why it moved the index

Public release materially expanded generative AI access in the world's largest national internet market and intensified international competition, without establishing an immutable serving checkpoint for a model record.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 49 · confidence 95

    New August 2023 population-scale generative-AI deployment in China.

    12 Aug 2026