The （compete）among Chinese AI chatbots（聊天机器人）is heating up. Moonshot AI's Kimi has just overtaken（超过）Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen. Meanwhile, this new chatbot is also narrowing the gap with Baidu's Ernie Bot, is the largest chatbot in the Chinese AI market.
In March, Kimi had 126 million visitors to its website and app. That's four times more than the month before. The sudden rise in visitors even caused the chatbot （crash）for at least two days. Kimi is known for dealing specific tasks and is especially good at analyzing long text. This makes it stand out from Baidu's and Alibaba's products as both are （main）used for general purposes. "But Kimi isn't going to overtake Ernie Bot anytime soon. " said Li Bangzhu, the founder of AIcpb. com. "Because latter has a huge user base. And it's still growing."
Why did Kimi get so many visitors in March? There was a good reason; the company （announce）a new technology on March 18. Kimi was the first to make a technological breakthrough, （process）up to two million Chinese characters in a single prompt（提示词）. That's ten times as many as it could do before.
Since ChatGPT took off in 2022, Chinese companies have been working hard to develop （they）own AI products. By the end of last year, there were over 200 large language models in China. Up to now, more than 20 of them （put）into use. Kim's big breakthrough shows that Chinese companies have great potential in the field of AI.
