SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese internet search behemoth Baidu has been rejecting requests to correct Korean poet Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945)’s nationality over the past year. Baidu introduces Yun, as well as Korean independence fighters Lee Bong-chang (1900-1932) and Yun Bong-gil (1908-1932) as of Chinese nationality and lists their ethnic group as “Joseonjok” or [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese internet search behemoth Baidu has been falsely claiming that renowned Korean poet Yun Dong-ju (1917-45) is a Chinese national, an activist professor said Wednesday. Baidu’s online encyclopedia currently introduces Yun as a Chinese national, part of the ethnic Koreans living in China, explained Seo Kyeong-Deok, a professor at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s No. 1 memory chipmaker, said Wednesday it will mass-produce an artificial intelligence (AI) chip for Chinese web portal operator Baidu Inc. early next year. Samsung will manufacture Baidu KUNLUN, the Chinese internet firm’s first cloud-to-edge AI accelerator, which is to be built on Baidu’s [...]
QUEBEC CITY, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — LeddarTech, an industry leader providing the most versatile and scalable auto and mobility LiDAR platform, announced the integration of LeddarTech’s LiDAR products into Apollo, Baidu’s autonomous driving open platform. LeddarTech’s products will now be compatible with Apollo 3.5, the latest version of the platform, through the integration of [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and Chinese internet search behemoth Baidu will strengthen their partnership in developing connected vehicles and related technologies, the company said Tuesday. In their strategic business partnership, Hyundai Motor Group and Baidu will jointly develop connected car services that provide a variety of in-car content [...]
BEIJING, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU), SB Drive, a subsidiary of Softbank dedicated to self-driving technology research, and King Long, a leading commercial vehicle manufacturer in China, today announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop and deploy a version of the Apolong self-driving mini bus for the Japanese market. Under the agreement, [...]
BEIJING, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) today announced Kunlun, China’s first cloud-to-edge AI chip, built to accommodate high performance requirements of a wide variety of AI scenarios. The announcement includes training chip “818-300”and inference chip “818-100”. Kunlun can be applied to both cloud and edge scenarios, such as data centers, public clouds [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Google is the most used Internet search engine in North Korea, with usage of software systems designed to search for information on the World Wide Web being very much limited in the country, Radio Free Asia reported Tuesday. Citing statistics from the Irish web analytics company StatCounter, the U.S.-funded [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese tech giant Baidu Inc. is expected to emerge as a major player in the field of voice-recognizing artificial intelligence programs through 2022, an industry tracker said Friday, widening the gap with Samsung Electronics Co.’s Bixby. The penetration rate of Samsung Electronics’ Bixby in the field is expected to reach 5.4 percent in 2022, falling sharply from 12.7 percent posted in 2017, Strategy [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday it will work with Chinese technology giant Baidu, Inc. to develop a navigation system for its vehicles that will be sold in the world’s biggest auto market. Hyundai and Baidu will jointly develop “Baidu MapAuto” and a voice recognition system [...]