Baidu’s Revenue Hits RMB 100 Billion in 2020, Driven by AI Transitions
On February 18, Baidu released the 2020 full year and Q4 financial report, presenting revenue of RMB 107.1 Billion, and its net profit of RMB 22 billion.
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Baidu Releases ML Bio-computing Framework PaddleHelix
At the Wave Summit 2020 held on December 20, Baidu unveiled the company’s newest ML-based bio-computing framework named “PaddleHelix”.
Beijing to Open 100 Unmanned Taxi Stations
Self-driving taxis began to fully operate in Beijing and the weekly number of orders per day during the peak period has exceeded 2,600.
“Top 500 Chinese Enterprises” Report: Baidu, Huawei and NetEase Rank Top Three in R&D
In 2020, the average R&D intensity of the top 500 Chinese companies has increased for three consecutive years and bounced back to the highest level in history.
Baidu World 2020 Conference Showcases AI for Autonomous Driving and Virtual Assistant
Chinese tech giant Baidu hosted Baidu World 2020 conference under the theme of “Intelligence of Everything”, unveiling new flagship products and AI upgrades.
Baidu Launches Smart Earbuds “XiaoduPods” and Announces DuerOS Upgrades
Chinese tech giant Baidu unveiled the latest version of conversational AI system DuerOS 6.0 and launched smart earbuds “XiaoduPods”, which fulfills more user needs including elderly care and smart hotel.
Beep! Beep! Baidu Apollo’s Unmanned Taxi Opens for Test Service in Beijing
Baidu Apollo announced the official operation of self-driving taxi service Apollo Go in Beijing.
Introducing Qian Yan, Baidu’s New Plan to Build 100 Chinese NLP Datasets in Three Years
Qian Yan, a plan to jointly develop the world’s largest Chinese natural language processing database.
PLATO-2: The State-Of-The-Art Open-Domain Chatbot in Chinese and English
PLATO-2, a open-domain chatbot model, can talk about anything in Chinese and English and engage in deep conversations.
Introducing Paddle Quantum: How Baidu’s Deep Learning Platform PaddlePaddle Empowers Quantum Computing
Paddle Quantum is developed based on Baidu’s deep learning platform PaddlePaddle, which has become the first and unique deep learning platform in China that supports quantum machine learning.
New Baidu Algorithms Boost mRNA Vaccine Development for SARS-COV-2
LinearDesign, an efficient algorithm for optimized mRNA sequence design.
Battling the Coronavirus: Alibaba and Baidu AI Accelerate Vaccine and Drug R&D
The crucial step now is to develop matching vaccines and drugs to uproot its existence, and China’s big tech companies have stepped up to help.
Baidu Open-Sources RNA Prediction Algorithm for 2019 Novel Coronavirus
The tool can significantly accelerate the prediction time of a virus’s RNA secondary structure, affording frontline researchers an opportunity to better understand the virus and develop targeting vaccines in a time of crisis.
Baidu’s Pre-training Model ERNIE Achieves New NLP Benchmark Record
ERNIE has achieved new state-of-the-art performance on GLUE and become the world’s first model to score over 90 in terms of the macro-average score (90.1).
Baidu PaddlePaddle Releases 21 New Capabilities to Accelerate Industry-Grade Model Development
Featuring 100+ models, new mobile inference engine, and frameworks for graph & federated learning
Tencent-backed Video App Kuaishou Is Turning Chinese Country Folk Into Hollywood Directors
Thanks to social video app Kuaishou and its plug-and-play tools, even rural Chinese with cheap smartphones are quickly and easily producing short videos featuring Hollywood-style special effects.
Chinese Video Streaming Giant Introduces Anime Facial ID Dataset
In a bid to combine anime and cartoon culture with machine learning, a research team from China’s leading video streaming service iQIYI has introduced a novel large unconstrained cartoon dataset they call “iCartoonFace.”
ACL 2019 Announces Best Papers; Nature Covers Tianjic Chip; Baidu Releases ERNIE 2.0
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Baidu’s ERNIE 2.0 Beats BERT and XLNet on NLP Benchmarks
Today, the research division of the Chinese search giant released their updated ERNIE 2.0, a pretrained language understanding model with significant improvements.
A New Paradigm for Production in the AI Era
Artificial intelligence is having a revolutionary effect on industrial production. In the following article, Baidu Ventures Partner and Founder of Comet Labs Saman Farid shares his thoughts on recent changes and future trends in Machine learning-driven production philosophies and technologies.
Baidu PaddlePaddle DL Framework & Huawei Kirin SoC: A Formidable Partnership
Baidu’s homegrown deep learning framework PaddlePaddle will empower Huawei’s Kirin smartphone chips, the company announced at the Baidu Create 2019 AI Developer Conference that kicked off today in Beijing.
Five Powerful Robots You Shouldn’t Miss
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AI Fools’ Day: Tech Giants’ Top Pranks
Today is April Fool’s Day, and despite Microsoft’s efforts to ban such pranks, many tech companies could not resist joining in the centuries-old spoofing tradition. However, given the already incredible achievements of cutting-edge AI technologies, some of today’s hoaxes actually look pretty convincing.
Baidu’s ERNIE Tops Google’s BERT in Chinese NLP Tasks
Baidu has released ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration), a new knowledge integration language representation model which outperforms Google’s state-of-the-art BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) in Chinese language tasks.
The Tech Inside a Baidu Engineer’s AI-Powered Cat Shelter
Beijing winters can be devastating on feral cats, with studies suggesting only about 40 percent make it through the long stretch of cold and harsh weather. A Baidu AI engineer who goes by the alias “Wan’xi” (晚兮) set out to make a difference for vulnerable neighbourhood kitties, and the result is an AI-powered smart shelter system.
Baidu Unveils Major Apollo Intelligent Driving Ecosystem Advancements at CES 2019
At CES 2019 in Las Vegas today Chinese tech giant Baidu introduced Apollo Enterprise, a new suite of customizable autonomous driving and Internet of Vehicles (IoV) solutions for mass production vehicles. The company also released Apollo 3.5, the latest and most sophisticated iteration of its open autonomous driving platform, which now supports complex urban and suburban driving environments.
MLPerf Announces First Results; Microsoft & Facebook Get On Board
The team behind MLPerf has announced the machine learning benchmark’s first set of results. MLPerf is a broad machine learning benchmark designed to measure the best performance of each participant with its own resources on a specific task.
Baidu & FAW Hongqi Unveil China’s First L4 Autonomous Passenger Cars
Baidu CEO Robin Li today gave the world a peek at China’s first Level 4 autonomous driving passenger cars, co-developed by Baidu and carmaker FAW Hongqi. Li introduced the vehicles at the 2018 Baidu World Conference in Beijing. The cars will enter mass production by the end of 2019, and their road debuts will be in Beijing and FAW Hongqi’s hometown of Changchun.
Baidu Announces Autonomous Taxi & Bus Fleet for Hunan
Baidu today announced plans for a comprehensive self-driving taxi and bus service in Changsha, the capital of southern Hunan province and birthplace of Mao Zedong. Baidu has signed a partnership agreement with the Changsha Municipal People’s Government and Hunan Xiangjiang New Area Development Group that aims to reinvent the local commute.
Baidu Announces Breakthrough in Simultaneous Translation
Today, we are excited to announce STACL (Simultaneous Translation with Anticipation and Controllable Latency), the first simultaneous machine translation system with anticipation capabilities and controllable latency.
China Gets a Piece of PAI: Why Baidu Joining the US-Led AI Consortium Is a Big Deal
Adding Baidu’s voice will broaden PAI’s understanding of global AI technologies and their ethical implications. Chinese companies are pushing forward with a wide adoption of AI technologies across industries from healthcare to transportation and beyond.
Baidu President Ya-Qin Zhang Talks AI Security
As Chinese Internet giant Baidu has expanded from search to mobile apps, cloud services, and emerging business sectors like autonomous driving and voice assistants, it has correspondingly beefed up its research efforts, particularly in AI, to keep pace with growing security threats.
Former Baidu Executive and AI Master Qi Lu Joins Y Combinator China As CEO
Three months after Chinese Internet giant Baidu announced that COO Qi Lu will step down in July due to “personal and family reasons”, Lu today unveiled his new adventure: Chief Executive Officer of Y Combinator China.
AI Drives Baidu Q2 Profits, but Stock Falls on Google Chinese Search Engine Speculation
On the same day Baidu was announcing another quarter of strong earnings, the Chinese search engine giant’s stock prices suddenly tumbled on a report American rival Google is planning to launch a new search engine for the Chinese market.
New Chips, L4 Autonomous Bus & Baidu Brain 3.0 Showcased at Baidu Create 2018
At the Baidu Create 2018 AI developer conference which kicked off today in Beijing, the company announced a series of AI-based innovations and product releases that seem designed to regain public trust.
NCRF in Deep Learning Improves Cancer Metastasis Detection
The Baidu Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab has released a paper which proposes a neural conditional random field (NCRF) process for cancer metastasis detection on Whole Slide Images (WSIs).
AI Biweekly: 10 Bits from May W4 – June W1
Microsoft is working on a bias-detecting tool which can alert people if an AI algorithm might be treating them unfairly based on their race or gender. As more and more decisions are being made by or based on AI, the detection of unfair biases has become an important public issue.
Baidu COO Qi Lu Out; Haifeng Wang Named New AI Group Senior VP
Baidu announced this morning that COO Qi Lu will leave his position in July due to “personal and family reasons.” Baidu also promoted Dr. Haifeng Wang to Senior Vice President and General Manager of Baidu AI Group.
Can AI Reinvent the TV?
Leading television manufacturer Skyworth has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Chinese internet giant Baidu. In the deal announced March 17, Baidu will invest CN¥1.01 billion (US$159.7 million) in Skyworth’s Smart TV unit Coocaa; while its AI assistant system DuerOS will be integrated into Skyworth’s agenda-setting Super AI TV.