Some employees sell Baidu stock ahead of ChatGPT equivalent launch, WSJ says

A week away from the March 16 launch of Baidu’s ChatGPT equivalent, employees said they are racing to meet the deadline with the chatbot still struggling to perform some basic functions, The Wall Street Journal’s Raffaele Huang and Karen Hao report. To develop the AI-powered chatbot, dubbed Ernie Bot, hundreds of people have been working around the clock, people familiar with the project said. Employees have been pulled to help out, in particular to clean the training data, such as to filter out low-quality content, some of the people said. Baidu hired external teams for data cleaning as well, some sources added. The time crunch has left some employees uneasy about whether Ernie Bot will meet user or market expectations, people familiar with the matter said. Some of the employees said they have sold some company stock ahead of the launch because of those concerns, the authors note. Reference Link