BEIJING, Jan. 10,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU
and HKEX: 9888), a leading AI company with strong internet
foundation, today hosted its annual flagship developer conference
Baidu Create 2022. The event was held virtually in XiRang, Baidu's
metaverse app, as the company's first conference co-hosted by
humans and robots. In addition to featuring several key technology
advancements, Baidu Create offered an in-depth exploration of
Baidu's research and analysis of future technology trends, covering
a range of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence,
autonomous driving, intelligent search, quantum computing and AI
scientific computing.
With the theme of "Creator Spirit", this year's conference
called upon technology believers to join Baidu in exploring more
possibilities driven by AI. A recording of the Baidu Create 2022
main forum is available on Baidu's official YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlydjVDYb3A
In his speech "Innovation Drives Growth, Feedback Drives
Innovation", Robin Li, Co-founder,
Chairman and CEO of Baidu, detailed Baidu's strategy for driving
healthy and sustainable growth. Li declared that deep learning
algorithms have set the cornerstone for the fourth technological
revolution. Major technology innovations powered by deep learning
algorithms such as autonomous driving and intelligent water and
electricity dispatching systems will emerge at scale, making a
significant impact on society. Li emphasized the role of feedback
of the market, users and customers in driving technology
innovation. "Technology innovation is not something you can create
behind closed doors. Rather, innovation comes from listening and
improving based on real-world user feedback," Li said. He cited
Baidu's Kunlun AI chip as an example, its state-of-art AI chip
performance was made possible by the company's decade-long
accumulation in serving billions of user search requests every
day.
Speaking at the main forum of Baidu Create, Haifeng Wang, CTO of Baidu, said that deep
learning, as the core of AI development, is showing increasingly
strong potential for generalized application, preparing AI to play
a foundational role in industrial production through the "deep
learning plus" model.
Wang noted that on the technological side, "deep learning plus
knowledge" is set to power long-term AI breakthroughs. He cited
Baidu's AI art generation platform Wenxin Yige as an example of
this dynamic already taking place. Powered by knowledge-enhanced
cross-modal models, Wenxin Yige is able to accurately understand
the semantics and mapping relationships in language and images,
integrating learning from cross-modal knowledge such as language
and vision. In developing the AI ecosystem, "deep learning plus"
will also play a key role in linking upstream and downstream
partners in a relationship built on chips, frameworks, models and
applications. "Deep learning plus" will also have a major effect on
the industrial application of AI, enabling thousands of industries
and fields such as transportation, manufacturing, finance and
medicine to unleash more potential.
Baidu Reveals Key AIGC Technologies, Bringing AI-Enhanced
Creativity to the Next Level
At the conference, Baidu has introduced three talented AI
"creators": Big Model ERNIE 3.0 Zeus, Big Model ERNIE-ViLG 2.0
and new video content generation and editing technology. These new
technologies each feature versatile content creation skills,
allowing them to play the role of screenwriter, illustrator, editor
or animator, greatly enhancing the potential of AI-generated
content, or AIGC.
Hua Wu, Chairwoman of Baidu Technology Committee, described the
potential of AIGC to stimulate artistic creativity and empower
individual creators. "If you can utilize these content creation
abilities to the greatest extent, then you can complete many
important tasks of a film production. Coupled with virtual human
actors designed on your own, you can become a truly 'independent'
producer, a true 'independent director'."
Baidu Introduces UniBEV, Building Greater
Synergy between Smart Roads and Autonomous Vehicles
Baidu also unveiled UniBEV, a new solution for intelligent
transportation. As an integrated vehicle-road solution, UniBEV
supports multi-sensor, multi-modal, multi-tasking and other
end-to-end sensing capabilities, facilitating greater synergy
between smart vehicles and smart roads. In addition, Baidu
announced the industry's first echo cancelling solution realized by
software on the smartphone. It enables a smoother and more
intelligent human-AI interaction for improved navigation.
XiRang MetaStack Enables Efficient Metaverse Space
Construction in Only 40 Days
The event also witnessed the debut of XiRang MetaStack, the
world's first independent metaverse solution, which allows brands
to build their own metaverse space from scratch in as fast as 40
days, compared to the average 6 to 12 months required on average.
The solution offers a completely out of box development experience
with 20 core AI capabilities covering speech, semantics, vision,
audiovisual, blockchain and AIoT, increasing the average R&D
efficiency by 300% at half the operation and maintenance cost.
Baidu Introduces QIAN Strategy to Accelerate the
Industrialization of China's
Quantum Computing
Baidu also introduced its long-term quantum computing
development strategy QIAN, aiming to shorten the still significant
gap between quantum hardware and real-world applications. The name
QIAN is an acronym representing the four key pillars of the
strategy: quantum basic research, infrastructure construction,
application of quantum technology, and network ecosystem. Baidu
hopes to integrate quantum computing into countless industries,
bringing the world closer to a reality where "everyone can
quantum".
Baidu Releases New Generation Computing Architecture Taihang
DPU 2.0 and Heterogeneous Computing Platform Baige 2.0
In intelligent computing, Baidu released two major IaaS
products: Baidu Taihang DPU2.0, a new generation of computing
architecture, and Baidu Baige 2.0, an AI heterogeneous computing
platform. The two products further enrich Baidu AI Base,
China's first full-stack
self-researched AI infrastructure. With the generalization and
modularization of AI underlying technologies, Baidu aims to help
enterprise customers reduce costs and increase efficiency by
providing AI service at scale.
Baidu Has Trained More Than 3 Million AI Talents, Building a
Wider AI Ecosystem for Society
Baidu has been actively working with global developers to build
an ecosystem for cultivating AI professionals with capabilities in
specific applications of AI, or "AI plus X". As part of these
efforts, Baidu has trained more than 3 million AI talents. In the
next two years, the company will invest more resources to train
another 2 million AI talents, setting the stage for the development
a stronger and healthier AI industry in China and around the world.
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, trading on the NASDAQ under "BIDU"
and HKEX under "9888." One Baidu ADS represents eight Class A
ordinary shares.
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