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Baidu Intelligent Cloud Qianfan 2.0 Upgrade Released

On September 5th, at the 2023 Baidu Cloud Intelligence Conference held today, Baidu Intelligent Cloud announced the comprehensive upgrade and release of its Qianfan 2.0.

Baidu ERNIE Bot Answers 33.42 Million Questions on the 1st Opening Day

On September 1st, Baidu announced the first-day report of the release and download of their large-scale language model, "ERNIE Bot.

China Approves the First Batch of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services for Public Rollout

Baidu, ByteDance, and 8 others deploy large-scale models via generative AI for public services.

BYD Turns to Self-Developed Autonomous Driving

On August 15th, two informed sources revealed that BYDhas abandoned the agreement to equip its electric vehicles with Baidu's autonomous driving technology and will focus on developing in-house intelligent car software.

Baidu’s CTO Wang Haifeng: PaddlePaddle Now Has 7.5 Million Developers

On July 6th, at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Wang Haifeng, Chief Technology Officer of Baidu. and Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Deep Learning Technology and Applications revealed that as of now, PaddlePaddle has attracted 7.5 million developers.

Baidu Launches Commercial Fully Driverless Ride-Hailing Service in Shenzhen

Chinese tech giant Baidu has obtained licensing for commercial operation of its fully driverless ride-hailing service in Shenzhen.

Baidu Announces “AI Partner” and “AI BOT”

On May 25, at the 2023 Baidu Mobile Ecosystem Conference, Baidu unveiled beta features such as "AI Partner" and "AI BOT", and showcased its beta product NEW APP.

Research Institute Responds to Bing Overtaking Baidu’s Desktop Market Share in China: Statistics Show Anomalies, Investigation Underway

According to data from the American research institution Statcounter, in April 2023, Microsoft's Bing search engine surpassed Baidu in terms of market share for desktop searches in China. This news has sparked a heated discussion online.

Baidu’s Robin Li Says AI Cannot Replace Humans

Robin Li said: "I am not worried that large models will lead to a reduction in human job opportunities.

Baidu’s AI Arm Xiaodu to Launch Smartphone This Month

Xiaodu Technology, the artificial intelligence division of Chinese internet giant Baidu, is set to release its inaugural mobile phone in late May. Further details about the product will be disclosed on May 15th.

Baidu’s New AI Algorithm Boosts COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Antibody Response by 128 Times

A team of researchers from Baidu Research, an AI company based in Beijing, has developed an AI algorithm that can rapidly design highly stable COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sequences that were previously unattainable.

Baidu’s ERNIE Bot Reduces Reasoning Cost by 90%

Recently, Baidu held a technical exchange meeting for Ernie Bot, which has been in internal testing for a month. The meeting revealed that Ernie Bot has completed four technology version upgrades and the cost of large model inference has been reduced to one-tenth of the original.

Baidu Releases Major Product Updates to Gain Advantages in Intelligent Car Competition

On April 16, Chinese tech giant Baidu hosted an automotive intelligence conference ahead of Auto Shanghai 2023. At the event, Baidu unveiled a range of new products focused on intelligent driving, cabin technology, and maps.

Intelligent Truck Manufacturer DeepWay Secures A+ Round Financing of $117M

DeepWay, an intelligent truck manufacturer based in China, has secured over 1.2 billion yuan ($174 million) in funding after completing its A+ round financing of 770 million yuan ($117 million).

Baidu AI Cloud Releases “Wenxin Qianfan” Large-Scale Model Platform

Baidu AI Cloud released an all-in-one enterprise-level large-scale model platform called "Wenxin Qianfan", which will provide customers with language model services.

Launch Event for Baidu’s ERNIE Bot Changes to Closed Exchange Meeting

Baidu AI Cloud was scheduled to hold a launch event on March 27th at which it will unveil a series of cloud services and applications related to the company's new Ernie Bot. According to sources close to Baidu's insiders, the launch event has been cancelled and "will be postponed for a few days before being released".

Baidu Invests in RISC-V Chip Startup StarFive

On March 23, Shanghai-based RISC-V chip technology startup StarFive announced that it had received an investment from Chinese search giant Baidu of an undisclosed amount.

Baidu Responds to Functional Plagiarism of ERNIE Bot

On March 23rd, a blogger on Weibo published an article that questioned ERNIE Bot's image generating function has all but copied "StableDiffusion", and that ERNIE Bot has limitations in its Chinese semantic understanding. To this, Baidu responded that ERNIE Bot is a big language model fully developed by the company, and the ability of words to generate pictures comes from the big model ERNIE-ViLG.

Baidu’s Ernie Bot-Integrated Cloud Service to Launch on March 27

Baidu, a Chinese technology company that recently launched its ChatGPT-like platform called Ernie Bot, is preparing to introduce a cloud service on March 27 that will integrate the large language model (LLM) and generative AI product.

Baidu’s Apollo Go Launches Fully Unmanned Automatic Driving Travel Service in Beijing

On March 17th, Baidu's Apollo Go was allowed to carry out a demonstration of its unmanned automated driving service in Beijing. This is the first time in the world that unmanned motor vehicles have been implemented in a capital city. So far, Apollo Go has started unmanned automated driving travel services in Beijing, Wuhan and Chongqing.

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