While the US, with its line-up of powerful tech companies, such as OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google, seems to be spearheading the AI race, a force from the Far East is quietly establishing its dominance. China’s multinational giant, Baidu, has been making strides in AI that others should probably worry about.
A few days ago, at the Baidu World 2024 conference in Shanghai, the big-tech company unveiled a number of AI products that catered to enterprises and consumers alike. AI Agents, image generation, smartglasses, name anything and Baidu has it covered.
Taking on Hallucinations
When the West is flaunting its text-to-image models such as DALL·E 3, Gemini, and others that have landed themselves in trouble for spewing misinformation, Baidu has pretty much struck the right chord.
Addressing the hallucinations that tend to mar the quality of AI-generated output, Robin Li, the founder and CEO of Baidu Inc, unveiled iRAG, an image-based retrieval augmented generation tool …