At a developer conference in Shenzhen, China, this week, tech company Baidu announced its Ernie chatbot has amassed 200 million users in eight months. While this is a fraction of China's population, Nicole Greene, a VP analyst at research firm Gartner, noted Ernie fills a market gap due to government restrictions. While US consumers have had access to generative AI since November 2022 , tools like ChatGPT , Gemini and Copilot aren't available in China. As a result
