Baidu Accelerates Commercial Deployment of Internet of Vehicles Solutions with New Partnerships Unveiled at CES Asia
June 11 2019 - 9:05AM
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) announced at CES Asia in Shanghai that
its DuerOS for Apollo, a comprehensive Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
solution platform for mass-production, has partnered with over 60
automotive manufacturers across more than 300 car models to date.
DuerOS for Apollo now also counts more than 300 ecosystem partners
as Baidu Apollo continues to accelerate commercialization.
Zhenyu Li, Vice President and General Manager of
Baidu’s Intelligent Driving Group, said that through Baidu’s
partnerships with leading international and local carmakers
including Ford, Mercedes, BMW, Hongqi, Great Wall Motors and Chery,
the number of vehicle models installed with DuerOS for Apollo is
expected to exceed 500 in two years.
“We are thrilled to become the trusted partner of
so many leading automotive brands,” Zhenyu Li said. “We will
accelerate our R&D progress, work with the industry to
establish IoV standards, provide state-of-the-art IoV solutions to
our automotive partners and support their evolution in the
intelligent era.”
In addition to carmakers, the DuerOS for Apollo
partner ecosystem, which includes China Unicom and iQIYI, now
counts more than 300 core members.
Baidu is demonstrating DuerOS for Apollo at CES
Asia on vehicles from Ford, Chery and Great Wall Motors. The Ford
Edge ST, which is equipped with Ford’s SYNC+ in-vehicle
infotainment system developed in partnership with Baidu based on
DuerOS for Apollo, is capable of providing intelligent navigation,
in-vehicle entertainment and integration with smart home
technologies. Powered by DuerOS for Apollo, Chery’s EXEED TXL
boasts facial recognition and smart payment functionalities, as
well as industry-leading augmented reality (AR) navigation.
Furthermore, the Great Wall Haval H6 is the first-ever model to
come installed with DuerOS for Apollo mini programs, providing a
wide array of content, services and applications for consumers.
Also unveiled at CES Asia was the draft of China’s
first IoV information security evaluation and testing technical
specifications, which was led by China Association of Automobile
Manufacturers and supported by Baidu and other organizations. While
information security has become a major undertaking in the
development of connected vehicles, the draft technical
specifications will serve to provide authoritative methodologies
and specifications in order to best ensure the security of
information.
About Baidu Baidu, Inc. is the
leading Chinese language Internet search provider. Baidu aims to
make the 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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