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Baidu Responds to Recent Media Reports on Ernie Bot

Baidu Responds to Recent Media Reports on Ernie Bot

BEIJING, Jan. 15, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)) (“Baidu” or the “Company”), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, has become aware of media reports regarding an academic paper that mentioned several large language models (“LLM”) such as GPT3.5, GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT4, HTML-T5, [...]

Baidu Still Refuses to Correct Nationality of Korean Poet

Baidu Still Refuses to Correct Nationality of Korean Poet

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 [...]

Baidu Makes False Claims About Renowned Korean Poet’s Nationality

Baidu Makes False Claims About Renowned Korean Poet’s Nationality

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 [...]

Samsung to Produce Baidu’s AI Chip

Samsung to Produce Baidu’s AI Chip

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 [...]

LeddarTech Joins Baidu’s Apollo Autonomous Driving Open Platform

LeddarTech Joins Baidu’s Apollo Autonomous Driving Open Platform

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 [...]

Hyundai, Baidu to Strengthen Ties in Connected Cars

Hyundai, Baidu to Strengthen Ties in Connected Cars

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 [...]

Baidu Joins Forces with Softbank’s SB Drive, King Long to Bring Apollo-Powered Autonomous Buses to Japan

Baidu Joins Forces with Softbank’s SB Drive, King Long to Bring Apollo-Powered Autonomous Buses to Japan

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, [...]

Baidu Unveils High-Performance AI Chip, Kunlun, at Baidu Create 2018

Baidu Unveils High-Performance AI Chip, Kunlun, at Baidu Create 2018

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 [...]

Baidu’s AI Program Set to Widen Gap with Samsung Through 2022

Baidu’s AI Program Set to Widen Gap with Samsung Through 2022

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 [...]