2017 Baidu World Conference: Baidu Brings AI to Life
November 16 2017 - 7:48AM
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) held its annual conference “Baidu World”
in Beijing today with the theme “Bring AI to Life”, highlighting
Baidu’s efforts to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to everyday
life and expand products and services empowered with intelligent
technology to better understand and serve users.
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“Many people think that the world will become more and more
complicated. With the arrival of the AI era, Baidu believes that we
can bring changes to everything through technology,” said Robin Li,
Baidu’s Chairman and CEO. “Baidu hopes to use AI technologies to
make a complex world simper, because today, Baidu knows you better
than you know yourself.”
During the Baidu World morning keynotes, Baidu released Mobile
Baidu 10.0, the latest iteration of its flagship mobile search app,
and its first AI-powered hardware, the Raven series. It also
announced that its AI platform Baidu Brain has opened more than 80
core AI capabilities to over 370,000 developers and partners, which
have access to the AI open platform. Baidu Brain’s capabilities,
which include image and voice recognition, natural language
understanding and user profiling, are currently being used 218.8
billion times per day.
Robin Li revealed that Apollo, Baidu’s autonomous driving open
platform, will work with China’s Xiong’an New Area in intelligent
transportation to develop the area into a leading, global smart
city. This is aligned with Baidu’s plan to accelerate the pace of
the mass production of autonomous vehicles through an open
ecosystem. Baidu is partnering with King Long, a leading Chinese
commercial vehicle and bus manufacturer, to mass-produce driverless
buses by end of July 2018. It’s also working with Chinese
automakers JAC and BAIC to launch Level 3 autonomous vehicles in
2019, and with Chery Automobile to launch in 2020. Apollo has now
attracted more than 70 global partners, including automakers like
Hyundai, Ford, Daimler, and Bosch, among others. At the conference,
Baidu displayed a drowsiness detection system to alert car drivers
when signs show they are distracted or sleepy, helping them to
avoid danger. FAW Group, an Apollo partner, will work with Baidu to
commercialize the product.
Baidu’s First AI Hardware
Baidu unveiled a new product line-up of three AI-enabled smart
hardware – raven H, raven R, and raven Q, which allow users to
interact with the devices through voice and touch. Smart speaker
raven H is the first product from the Raven series since Baidu
acquired smart hardware start-up Raven Tech this February. It
blends technology with the arts, elevating the connected home
experience with a high-end smart speaker, which has broken through
many engineering and material science boundaries. Raven H was
collaboratively designed by Raven Tech, Inc. and Teenage
Engineering, a veteran Swedish hardware design team.
Mobile Baidu and iQIYI Enter the New Mobile Era
Baidu released Mobile Baidu 10.0 at the conference, ushering
users into the “new mobile experience” powered by the seamless
integration of AI. Mobile Baidu is integrated with search and feed,
and also links with iQIYI, China’s leading online video platform,
delivering not only exceptional content, but also an entertainment
experience driven by intelligent systems.
At the heart of the new Mobile Baidu is Baidu’s extensive
library of big data, key to AI technology that can truly understand
the needs of users. Using technologies such as voice interaction
and augmented reality, users can get access to information much
easier with an interactive experience.
“In the future, Baidu will continue to launch innovative
products driven by AI,” said Baidu COO Qi Lu. “We will make AI
visible and touchable, introducing AI into everyone’s lives.”
About Baidu
Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search
provider. Baidu aims to make a complicated world simpler for users
and enterprises through technology. Baidu’s ADSs trade on the
NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “BIDU.” Currently, ten
ADSs represent one Class A ordinary share.
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