Baidu

Summary

Baidu is a Chinese technology company that focuses on internet‐related services and products. The company operates the most popular search engine in China, giving it access to the vast datasets generated by billions of search queries. In 2018, Baidu became the first Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company to join the Partnership on AI established by Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM to encourage ethical development of AI. AI is crucial to autonomous driving. Baidu has partnered with Huawei to build an open AI platform for mobile development. Baidu has also developed a handheld device capable of generating deep learning translations between English, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. As well as a search function, Baidu also offers image searching, maps, videos, news and translation services to its users. AI has been deployed across all of these functions to more accurately return results that users will find useful.