Breaking News! Baidu Launches ERNIE Bot Plugin Store!

Overview of the Plugin Store

On the ERNIE Bot homepage, by clicking "Select Plugin" above the dialogue box, you can access the "Plugin Store."

The ERNIE Bot 3.5 plugin store currently hosts 11 innovative plugins:

• 览卷文档: Previously known as ChatFile, it enables tasks like summarizing, question-answering, and creative writing based on documents, supporting files up to 10MB (excluding scanned documents). Click to view: How to use the ERNIE Bot plugin 览卷文档?
• 说图解画: This plugin uses images to assist in text creation and answering questions, ideal for drafting copy and storytelling. It currently supports images up to 10MB. Click to view: How to use the ERNIE Bot plugin 说图解画?
• E言易图: Powered by Apache Echarts, this plugin offers insightful data analysis and chart creation, supporting formats like bar, line, pie, radar, scatter, funnel charts, and mind maps (tree charts). Click to view: How to use the ERNIE Bot plugin E言易图?
• Business Information Query: Enabled by Aiqicha, this plugin provides business information retrieval, useful for company regulatory/stock details, and researching employers' positions and investments. Click to view: How to use the ERNIE Bot plugin Business Information Query?
• TreeMind树图: An innovative AI mind mapping software, offering smart mind mapping tools and diverse templates, supporting formats like brain maps, logic diagrams, tree diagrams, fishbone diagrams, and more. It leverages cutting-edge AI for efficient learning and working. Click to view: How to use the ERNIE Bot plugin TreeMind树图?
• 板栗看板: Assists in planning, task breakdown, and generates visual task dashboards automatically. 
• AI Video Assistant: Acts as a personal AI assistant for learning from videos, swiftly summarizing content from platforms like Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, and Douyin. Currently, it's limited to personal creative video analysis.
• AiPPT.cn: Generate a complete PPT in just 10 seconds with a single sentence, offering a seamless experience in smart layout, image matching, and a vast array of templates for quick customization, with online editing and downloading capabilities.
• Web Page Reader: Summarizes and refines content from user-provided web links, currently supporting up to 2000 characters of web content, not including PDF and image recognition.
• 知犀 AI Mind Map: This AI-powered plugin effortlessly creates mind maps with just a click, offering the capability to expand on any chosen topic for endless AI-driven inspiration. It enables on-the-go online generation, editing, and exporting of mind maps. 知犀 AI Mind Map is designed for efficiency and convenience, enhancing your learning and work experience at every step.
• Workplace Code AI Resume: This tool crafts personalized cover letters and job application letters, offering a range of resume templates, including bilingual examples and specific formats for postgraduate study applications. It features functionalities for online editing, formatting, easy template swapping, and an AI-powered analysis to optimize your resume.

The ERNIE Bot 4.0 plugin store expands the collection with 17 plugins, six more than the 3.5 version, including:

• 一镜流影: An AI text-to-video creator, transforming text descriptions into videos seamlessly.
• 仔细想想: Analyzes responses from ERNIE Bot, offering suggestions for improvement, effective for text creation and specific Q&A tasks. Currently, it doesn't support simultaneous use with other plugins. Click to view: How to use the ERNIE Bot plugin 一镜流影?
• AI识图: Utilizes Baidu's AI open platform to identify content in uploaded pictures, capable of recognizing a variety of scenes like animal and plant species, landmarks, and currencies.
• 擎舵营销数字人: Generates digital human videos based on product names, with ongoing enhancements for digital human types, backgrounds, and product highlights.
• 快读: Just by entering a URL, it extracts keywords, summaries, outlines, and mind maps (supports Bilibili subtitles).
• 百度律临: A specialized legal plugin, offering applicable laws and regulations based on legal inquiries.

The Significance of the Plugin Store

The inaugural batch of plugins, though modest in number, significantly broadens the scope of ERNIE Bot's applications, enabling users to select tools that cater to their specific needs. For instance, the Workplace Code AI Resume can craft tailored resumes based on user information, substantially boosting job-seeking efficiency. AiPPT.cn revolutionizes PPT creation with its rapid, intelligent design. 

Moreover, the initial set of plugins predominantly features Baidu's native applications, with fewer third-party plugins for now. Baidu encourages developers to join the community to build more ERNIE Bot plugins, offering accessible development tools like the ERNIE Bot SDK, though the plugin approval process remains stringent.

Overall, the launch of the ERNIE Bot plugin store not only illustrates the growing maturity of AI technology but also heralds the dawn of an era dominated by native AI applications. This platform offers a rich array of AI tools for users and a fertile ground for developers to innovate and experiment. In the future, as more plugins join and the community matures, we can expect to witness a surge in innovative AI applications and a deeper, more versatile integration of AI technology across various sectors. This will not only propel technological advancement but also profoundly reshape our everyday lives and work practices.