Baidu

  • Baidu Apollo opens manned autopilot test in Beijing

    On August 24, Baidu Apollo was granted permission to carry out manned automated driving tests in Beijing, which can be experienced by ordinary users.

  • Large number of former Baidu search execs join ByteDance

    In May 2019, five Baidu executives left the company, four of whom are members of the management team of Baidu Search. According to Tencent News, two of those four executives have joined ByteDance, namely Wu Haifeng and Sun Wenyu.

  • Baidu's driverless taxi Apollo Robotaxi used in downtown area for first time

    Baidu has opened its Apollo Go automated taxi service in Cangzhou, Hebei province, making the city the first in China to use Robotaxi in the downtown area.

  • Baidu announces next-gen cloud infrastructure 'Taihang'

    Baidu announced a new generation of cloud infrastructure Baidu "Taihang", as well as six new products and upgraded the four application platforms to upgrade smart computing capabilities on August 20 at the 2020 Baidu Smart Cloud Smart Computing Summit.

  • India's purge of Chinese apps spreads to Baidu and Weibo, local media says

    The Indian government has asked the region's Google and Apple app stores to remove the Baidu Search and Sina Weibo, the India Times reported today.

  • Baidu rumored to spin off personal cloud decision for independent IPO

    Baidu has recently been planning to split several of its businesses internally and possibly make them go public independently, according a report today by a WeChat account.

  • Baidu to reveal the mystery of China's first Mars rover in 360-degree panorama

    China's Tianwen 1 Mars rover is about to launch, and Baidu App is about to show what it will look like in a 360-degree panorama.

  • Baidu tops share of China's AI cloud services market in 2019, IDC says

    China's AI cloud services market reached $166 million in 2019, led by Baidu Intelligent Cloud, followed by Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud, according to a report released today by IDC. 

  • Baidu CEO: AI is now like the Internet in 2000

    The current phase of AI is one that is prone to confusion and even pessimism, just like the Internet experienced in 2000, Baidu Chairman and CEO Robin Li said today.

  • Baidu joins Linux patent protection organization

    Baidu has joined The Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest open source and Linux patent protection organization, to promote Linux technology and protect open source companies from intellectual property infringement.