- ERNIE 4.0 is now accessible to invited users on ERNIE Bot. In
addition, enterprise customers can apply for API testing via Baidu
Qianfan foundation model platform.
- Baidu has re-built many of its most popular applications using
the latest generative AI technologies, as well as introduced new
AI-native products, offering improved productivity and creativity
for a wide range of usage scenarios.
BEIJING, Oct. 17,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and
HKEX: 9888), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation,
today hosted its annual flagship technology conference Baidu World
2023 in Beijing, marking the
conference's return to an offline format after four years. With the
theme "Prompt the World," this year's Baidu World conference saw
Baidu launch ERNIE 4.0, Baidu's next-generation and most powerful
foundation model offering drastically enhanced core AI
capabilities. Baidu also showcased some of its most popular
applications, solutions, and products re-built around the company's
state-of-the-art generative AI.
"ERNIE 4.0 has achieved a full upgrade with drastically improved
performance in understanding, generation, reasoning, and memory,"
Robin Li, Co-founder, Chairman and
CEO of Baidu, said at the event. "These four core capabilities form
the foundation of AI-native applications and have now unleashed
unlimited opportunities for new innovations."
In his keynote, Li showcased the new ERNIE Bot powered by ERNIE
4.0 through extensive demonstrations of its four core AI
capabilities. ERNIE Bot is able to "Understand" and provide answers
to complex and even disorganized human requests, as well as
interpreting hidden messages. ERNIE can also "Generate" a range of
content, including text, images, and videos, in just a few minutes,
based on one simple text prompt and image input. Li further
demonstrated ERNIE Bot's ability to "Reason" by having it solve
complex geometry problems. Lastly, ERNIE Bot's ability to
"Memorize" and integrate incremental inputs was demonstrated by
writing a short story and regularly adding new information as ERNIE
was in process of writing the story.
According to Dr. Haifeng Wang,
Chief Technology Officer of Baidu, ERNIE 4.0 started beta version
testing in September based on a limited amount of user input, and
has since seen its overall performance improved by almost 30%.
ERNIE 4.0 is now accessible to invited users on ERNIE Bot, and the
API will be available upon application to enterprise clients via
Qianfan foundation model platform.
The emergent intelligence brought by foundation models and large
language models (LLMs) is unlocking unprecedented avenues for
innovative applications. Over the past few months, Baidu has
spearheaded this effort by adopting an AI-native approach to
re-build its family of apps, solutions, and products, including
Baidu Search, Baidu GBI, Infoflow, Baidu Wenku, Baidu Drive and
Baidu Maps. This revamp has not only significantly enhanced
productivity but has also sparked creativity, leading to delightful
and diverse user interactions.
Key updates on Baidu AI-native applications, solutions, and
products:
- New Baidu Search: Next-gen search experience powered by
Generative AI
Generative AI and search products are by nature
highly complementary. The addition of Generative AI has transformed
the search experience, changing the way users engage with
information and providing more in-depth information from a single
search. The new Baidu Search can now aggregate and summarize
information from diverse web sources and present a consolidated
answer through a variety of modals, including text, image and
dynamic graph, ensuring answers that are both vivid and concise.
Baidu search will also suggest more content streams that are
relevant to previous requests while staying highly customized based
on the user's unique profile. Additionally, Baidu Search offers an
interactive chat interface for more complex searches, enabling
users to iteratively refine their queries until reaching the
optimal answer, all in one search interface.
- Baidu GBI: China's first
generative business intelligent solution
As a business intelligence solution now powered
by Generative AI abilities, Baidu GBI plays the role of an
all-knowing, fast-reacting assistant in the business world. It can
quickly execute data inquiries, output business analytics, and
deliver results through easy-to-understand text and graph
summaries. It reduces the heavy lifting of having to go through
multiple spreadsheets to retrieve and analyze data, drastically
accelerating the process of business analytics and decision
making.
- Infoflow: The intelligent workplace APP with super
assistant
Infoflow integrates enterprise communication,
collaborative work, knowledge management, and enterprise services
all in one platform. Boosted with ERNIE's AI capabilities, Infoflow
can execute an array of office tasks through natural language
processing - from orchestrating meeting agendas and summarizing key
takeaways from complicated chat history to preparing meeting
briefings based on users' previous meeting documents and even
securing flight bookings based on their agenda.
- Baidu Wenku: From sharing documents to supercharging
productivity
With the addition of foundation model
capabilities, Baidu Wenku has evolved from a content documenting
platform to a content productivity platform. It can now assist
users in conducting academic research, summarizing key information,
creating documents, and generating slideshow presentations,
drastically reducing the time spent in content production in
scenarios such as preparing a keynote speech.
- Baidu Drive YunYiduo: World's first cloud drive intelligent
assistant
With the addition of YunYiduo to Baidu Drive,
users can now use text prompts or voice prompts to retrieve files,
images, videos, and more formats, even for very specific requests.
Powered by the multi-modal capabilities, YunYiduo can summarize key
information even from different figures appearing in a video,
precisely pinpoint the exact frame in the video, render
transcriptions, and add subtitles to drastically enhance users'
efficiency to extrapolate, summarize, and generate content across
various media formats.
- Baidu Maps: World's first AI-native map product making
modern travel effortless
The new Baidu Maps integrated AI capabilities
into its extensive functions, including navigation, ride-hailing,
restaurant recommendations, hotel booking, and more. The newly
integrated AI guide will take the initiative to suggest next step
of action to users during their trip.
- Plugin Matrix AI Platform: Offering low-threshold
access and productivity tools to develop AI plugins, this platform
allows both individual developers and enterprises to build AI
plugins. In just one month since its launch, 27,000 developers have
applied to join the Plugin Matrix AI Platform, covering a variety
of sectors ranging from legal counseling and resume creation to
brain mapping and spoken language practice.
- Qianfan Foundation Model Platform: As the world's first
one-stop enterprise-level foundation model platform, Qianfan
consolidates a wide range of pre-installed foundation models (both
from the Baidu ERNIE foundation model family and third-party
foundation models), datasets, and a full set of toolchains to
enable seamless development and application of foundation models.
Qianfan has now become China's
largest, most inclusive foundation model development platform,
encompassing 42 existing foundation models, and has empowered
enterprises from different sectors to develop their own foundation
models and solutions covering more than 500 use scenarios.
Baidu World 2023 also demonstrated Baidu's recent major
strategic progress across multiple business sectors. At the event,
Dr. Dou Shen, Executive Vice
President of Baidu and General Manager of AI Cloud Group, announced
a full upgrade of Baidu AI Cloud's strategy, aiming to provide
infrastructure such as Baidu Qianfan Foundation Model Platform to
empower enterprise customers in the development low-threshold AI
application and foundation models.
In his keynote speech at the event, Jackson He, Senior Corporate Vice President
of Baidu and General Manager of the Mobile Ecosystem Group,
outlined a future where Baidu's mobile ecosystem, linking billions
of users and millions of ecosystem partners, will stand at the
cutting-edge of developing and introducing AI-native
applications.
Ying Li, Corporate Vice President
of Baidu and CEO of Xiaodu Technology, revealed a series of smart
products built on incorporating AI in intelligent devices. The new
releases include Tiantian Home Robot, Xiaodu Qinghe Learning
All-in-one Machine, as well as Smart Speaker Series Tiantian
Casa.
Zhenyu
Li, Senior Corporate Vice President of Baidu,
explained how the deployment of foundation models has accelerated
the scaling of fully driverless robotaxis by drastically improving
operational efficiency. Today, Baidu possesses the world's largest
autonomous driving ride service platform, Apollo Go, with
cumulative rides provided to the public reaching more than 4
million. Apollo Go's fully driverless robotaxi fleet, operating
without any driver or safety operator in the car, currently serves
major cities in China, including
Beijing, Wuhan, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Baidu soon expects a future where
lower-cost robotaxi services will be more accessible to the public,
bringing the industry closer to profitability.
"China possesses rich resources
in terms of AI application scenarios, as well as a wealth of users
who are passionate about embracing new technologies," Robin Li said. "Now, with the emergence of
advanced foundation models, I am confident that we can build a
thriving AI ecosystem and create a new round of economic growth
together."
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