As expected, Ernie Bot (the name stands for "Enhanced Representation from kNowledge IntEgration;" its Chinese name is 文心一言, or Wenxin Yiyan) performs particularly well on tasks specific to Chinese culture, like explaining a historical fact or writing a traditional poem. But the highlight of the product release was Ernie Bot's multimodal output feature, which ChatGPT and GPT-4 do not offer (OpenAI has bragged about GPT-4's ability to analyze a photo of the contents of a refrigerator and come up with recipe suggestions, but the model generates only text). Li showed a recorded interaction with the bot where it generated an illustration of a futuristic city transportation system, used Chinese dialect to read out a text answer, and edited and subtitled a video based on the same text. However, in later testing after the launch, a Chinese publication failed to reproduce the video generation. The Chinese public has been hungry for a ChatGPT alternative; both OpenAI and the Chinese government have barred individuals in China from using the American chatbot. But so far, Ernie Bot has been made available only to an extremely select pool of Chinese creators.