Baidu DuerOS Voice Assistant Install Base Doubles in 6 Months to 100 Million
August 07 2018 - 5:00PM
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) today announced a major milestone, as the
install base of DuerOS, the company’s conversational AI assistant,
reached 100 million devices, doubling over the past six months.
This milestone further cements DuerOS’s leading position as a major
conversational AI platform in China.
“DuerOS leverages Baidu’s leading AI technologies and a vast
content ecosystem to provide unmatched user experience in
conversational AI. We are seeing voice input gaining huge adoption
in China. By leveraging Baidu’s AI technology, which has the
largest indexing of Chinese webpages and a better multi-modal
semantic understanding of the Chinese language, DuerOS is uniquely
positioned for the shift to conversational AI in China,” said Kun
Jing, General Manager of Baidu’s Smart Living Group.
DuerOS offers first-party devices as well as developer tool kits
and turnkey solutions to enable OEMs to easily integrate AI
capabilities into their devices, such as TV set-top boxes,
children’s storytelling machines, smart speakers and home
appliances. In June 2018, Baidu launched Xiaodu Smart Speaker,
selling out 10,000 units within the first 90 seconds it was
available online. Two months prior, Baidu released Xiaodu Video
Smart Speaker in partnership with Ainemo Inc., garnering
overwhelmingly positive customer reviews.
The DuerOS platform has attracted over 200 partners, is powering
over 110 models of smart devices and has a community of over 16,000
skills developers. DuerOS has formed partnerships with leading
smartphone brands, including Huawei, Vivo and OPPO, which have
integrated DuerOS conversational AI capabilities into several of
their flagship phone models. DuerOS is partnering with
InterContinental Hotels Group to bring smart rooms to China,
enabling hotel customers to control their rooms and receive hotel
information via voice commands. DuerOS has also formed partnerships
with auto OEMs, such as BMW Group, Daimler AG, Ford Motor, Hyundai,
Kia, Chery, BAIC Group, FAW Group and BYTON, to allow users to
navigate internet services, such as ordering movie tickets and
booking hotels, using AI input modalities, such as voice, image and
facial recognition.
According to the Smartphones: Global Artificial Intelligence
Technologies Forecast: 2010 to 2023 report published in July
2018, Strategy Analytics, a leading market research and consulting
firm, described DuerOS as “the fastest rising assistant from China”
and suggested that it may become the second largest smartphone
virtual assistant in the world behind Google Assistant in the next
few years.
About BaiduBaidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese
language Internet search provider. Baidu aims to make a complex
world simpler 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.
Media ContactBaidu International
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