Chinese giant Alibaba enters the fray with its bilingual AI model

The AI race has gone global

For the past few months, the competition in this sector mainly appeared to be a two-horse race between Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google’s Bard AI. After the latter faced some hiccups, Microsoft indeed took the lead. It had steadily incorporated OpenAI’s technology into all its products, ranging from the Office Suite to the barely used search engine Bing.

Chinese search giant, Baidu, launched its Ernie bot last month, but much like its U.S. counterpart, Google, it failed to make a significant impact. With…