The artificial intelligence (AI) bot "ChatGPT", developed by Californian company OpenAI and backed up by Microsoft, seems to be taking the world by storm, where an estimated over 100 million people have used the app in the first two months of its release, making it the fastest-growing consumer app in history. The global furor around the ChatGPT application that provides coherent, essay-like, responses to virtually any query has also spread to China's tech and business communities fueling massive competition, with big Chinese tech companies announcing plans to introduce their own ChatGPT-like products and services.