BEIJING, Aug. 18, 2021
/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Baidu demonstrated how its latest AI
innovations will transform and improve transportation, industry and
daily life at its annual flagship technology conference, Baidu
World 2021. From a robocar reveal and a rebranded robotaxi mobile
platform to Xiaodu's first smart TV and the 2nd
generation Kunlun AI chip, Baidu showcased how AI will permeate our
daily lives and bring about new, improved experiences.
Baidu's mission is to make the complicated world simpler through
technology. Speaking on how Baidu is doing this with AI, Baidu
Co-founder and CEO Robin Li said,
"AI is the combination of technology and feeling. The value of the
technology is that everyone can feel the changes brought by
it."
Key highlights from the event that demonstrated transformational
experiences as a result of AI include:
- A new era of autonomous driving – CEO Robin Li unveiled his vision for mobility of the
future – a robocar. This robocar, which has L5 autonomous
driving capabilities, will be more like an intelligent robot: it
will move, it will communicate, and it will learn. Alongside the
robocar, Baidu announced a new Luobo Kuaipao robotaxi mobile
platform, which aims to commercialize autonomous driving, making
hailed autonomous vehicles accessible to the broader public.
Together, these announcements demonstrate how the Baidu Apollo
intelligent driving program is forging the way towards the era of
autonomous driving 2.0 – shifting from technical verification to
large-scale operation.
- Xiaodu's new smart products – Xiaodu announced its first
smart TV – the Xiaodu Smart UHD TV V86 – complete with an
86-inch 4K ultra-HD screen,
AI-powered voice control and gesture recognition to bring users an
upgraded smart TV experience as smart TVs becoming more prevalent
in today's households. Xiaodu also announced the TIANTIAN
Rotating Smart Display T8, Xiaodu Active Noise Canceling
Intelligent Headphones Pro, its first active noise-cancelling
headset, and a Xiaodu Intelligent Dictionary Pen.
- AI-powered search with Baidu APP – Baidu demonstrated
onstage how AI technology powers speech recognition search on its
Baidu APP, which has 580 million monthly active users. The
demonstration showed that despite the length of query or mixing
Chinese and English language and dialects, the application
delivered results with 98% accuracy.
- Upgrading industries with AI technology – Baidu AI Cloud
has seen strong growth, growing 71% year over year as reported in
Baidu's Q2 2021 Earnings Report. This is due, in part, to Baidu's
ability to create and execute on more efficient solutions across a
variety of industries including manufacturing, energy and city
management. At Baidu World, the company featured projects with
partners across China including
Quanzhou Water Utility Brain, Suzhou Industrial Park, and Lijiang
City Brain.
- Baidu Brain 7.0 – Baidu CTO Haifeng Wang announced the latest version of
Baidu Brain, which is differentiated from the 6.0 version by its
powerful innovation integration – of knowledge and deep
learning, hardware and software, cross-modal and multi-technology
fusion, and technology and scenario application fusion – and its
reduced threshold for developers to learn the AI platform,
enabled by PaddlePaddle.
- 2nd Generation Kunlun AI Chip – Baidu
announced the mass production of the 7nm Kunlun II AI chip, which
delivers 2-3x more performance over the previous generation, with a
max power consumption of 120W. As the hardware engine of Baidu
Brain, Kunlun supports all types of algorithms including speech,
vision, natural language processing and intelligent
recommendation.
Baidu World 2021 was an opportunity to demonstrate Baidu's
vision of how AI will impact, transform and improve the daily lives
of people around the world – from smart transportation to smarter
homes to intelligent industrial applications. Each year, Baidu aims
to make AI solutions more accessible, smarter and more efficient,
and encourage the adoption of AI technologies across the spectrum
as it continues to innovate for the future.
To see the recording of the conference with English translation,
please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPjJqofYx7g
About Baidu
Founded in 2000, Baidu's mission is to make the complicated
world simpler through technology. Baidu is a leading AI company
with strong Internet foundation. Baidu is traded on the NASDAQ
Global Select Market under the symbol "BIDU", and on the main board
of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "9888".
Currently, one ADS represents eight Class A ordinary
shares.
Media Contact: intlcomm@baidu.com
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