HONG KONG -- Baidu announced on Thursday that the latest version of its Ernie AI chatbot will be free for all users starting April 1, as the Chinese search giant faces mounting pressure from rivals, including a collaboration between Alibaba and Apple to put AI on Chinese iPhones.
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