China Fudan University team apologises after ChatGPT-style platform crashes hours after launch

A team from China’s Fudan University apologised on Tuesday after a ChatGPT-like chatbot platform they developed crashed hours after it launched to the public, due to a sudden surge of traffic.

The team’s announcement on Monday of the platform they called MOSS instantly went viral on Chinese social media, generating tens of millions of hits on China’s Twitter-like Weibo. State media described it as the first Chinese rival to OpenAI’s hit ChatGPT platform.

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