Taipei, Jan. 28 -- Taiwan intends to invest in the creation of its own huge language model AI tool, comparable to ChatGPT, to fight the threat of Chinese influence via online digital technologies, according to Taiwan News.

The project, dubbed "TAIDE," follows the release of the Chinese chatbot programme "Ernie Bot," which was created by Baidu and made available to the public in 2023.

According to UDN, Taiwan might invest up to New Taiwan dollar 17.4 billion (USD556 million) by 2026 to create skills and programmes relevant to AI research.

Among those monies, New Taiwan Dollar 230 million (USD7.4 million) will be set aside particularly for the development of TAIDE, which stands for "Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine," according to Taiwan Ne...