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Tesla maps out new territory in China with Baidu deal

U-turn necessary to comply with Chinese law

Personal Tech01 May 2024 | 10

Apple iPhone AI to be powered by Baidu in China, maybe

Of course it's called ERNIE seeing as Google has BERT

Personal Tech23 Mar 2024 | 13

Baidu admits it may never get leading-edge GPUs again

Execs swear Chinese cloud will beat local rivals with a superior software stack that makes AI sing

AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 2

Nvidia lures senior autonomous car developer from China's Baidu

Jensen Huang's automotive engineering team has now pinched two significant Middle Kingdom talents

AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 7

750 million Indian mobile subscribers' info for sale on dark web

Asia In Brief ALSO: Samsung turns to Baidu for Galaxy AI in China; Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy; India's supercomputing ambitions

Cyber-crime28 Jan 2024 | 3

Baidu joins Tencent in downplaying impact of US chip bans on AI ambitions

Stockpiled silicon, improving efficiency, and looking for alternative suppliers – while maybe taking a dig at Microsoft and OpenAI

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 1

Baidu builds AI into cars so you can distract the kids with text-to-image tools

Drawing flying pandas is useful. But Chinese web giant isn't saying how AI on wheels is practical

AI + ML03 Aug 2023 | 9

Baidu boss says good luck talking AI to Beijing if you don't understand censorship

Unlike AI's output, the web giant's profits are not hallucinatory

AI + ML18 May 2023 | 5

Baidu sues Apple and anyone else in sight over ERNIE chatbot fakes

Someone in China upset its tech was ripped off? The irony

AI + ML10 Apr 2023 | 22

Baidu's AI chatbot ducks out of public demo

Please, let's not go all Skynet on this: Baidu has previously said ERNIE just isn't that impressive up close

AI + ML29 Mar 2023 | 5

Chinese web giant Baidu backs RISC-V for the datacenter

Gee, why could that be? Nah, not that. AI contender might just want better SmartNICs

On-Prem27 Mar 2023 | 6

Baidu's ERNIE chatbot has nothing to say about Xi Jinping

Bot also botches some requests, but is about to be baked into cloud services anyway

AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 3

China’s Baidu claims its ERNIE chatbot reinvents the computing stack

We're headed for models-as-a-service, apparently, and the OS doesn't matter

AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 16

China cuts off two chatbots: A local effort that flopped, and ChatGPT

Meanwhile Baidu plans to add its Ernie generative AI to search in March

AI + ML23 Feb 2023 | 2

AI giant Baidu shrugs off US chip export restrictions as having 'little impact'

Says sanctions could even accelerate China's drive for silicon self-sufficiency

AI + ML24 Nov 2022 | 9

China's Baidu enters quantum computing chat with Qian Shi system

A small but functional quantum system accelerating science, not search

Science25 Aug 2022 | 2

China allows robo taxis – without backup drivers – in parts of two major cities

Baidu gets the fare in Chongqing and Wuhan

AI + ML08 Aug 2022 | 22

Baidu crashes the cost of robo-taxis by 75 percent

Steering wheel not required, if desired – or you could add a coffee machine

AI + ML21 Jul 2022 | 29

China moves to protect offshore tech company listings

Unusual move sees regulator open consultation on access to audit documents

Legal04 Apr 2022 | 3

Baidu added to list of Chinese companies facing US stock exchange delisting

Vid-streamer iQIYI also earns a place

SaaS31 Mar 2022 |

Driverless car first: Chinese biz recalls faulty AI

Pony.ai pulls three of its test fleet from Californian roads

AI + ML10 Mar 2022 | 28

Baidu plans 100-city robot taxi rollout by 2030

AI cloud business booms, but not at levels – or in locations – that will worry rivals

AI + ML02 Mar 2022 | 1

Baidu's AI predictions for 2022: Autonomous driving! Quantum computing! Space! Human-machine symbiosis!

Did a computer program tell them to write this?

AI + ML25 Jan 2022 | 5

Baidu unveils AI chip to go in its fancy-pants robocar – and anywhere else someone may want to use it

Second-gen silicon to be more accessible for devs and applications

AI + ML19 Aug 2021 | 3

China stops networked vehicle data going offshore under new infosec rules

Hands-off driving detectors required, over-the-air updates to be strictly regulated

Security13 Aug 2021 | 34

Chinese web giant Baidu unveils Level 4 robo-taxi that costs $75k to make

Plans to roll 1,000 of 'em off the production line in three years

AI + ML18 Jun 2021 | 12

Robo-taxis hit the streets of Beijing – albeit a small fleet in a geo-fenced suburb

Code for the Baidu Apollo brains of the service is yours for the taking on GitHub, too

AI + ML06 May 2021 | 9

A keyboard? How quaint: Logitech and Baidu link arms to make an AI-enabled, voice-transcribing mouse

Dictates 3 languages, translates into 6, available only in China

AI + ML14 Apr 2021 | 30

China's clouds boom but they're collectively earning less than Azure alone

Alibaba in front with Huawei and Tencent on a second tier

PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2020 | 8

Google binned two apps by China’s Baidu, which says researchers got it wrong by linking it to personal info leaks

UPDATED Palo Alto Networks spotted subscriber IDs and MAC addresses on the move

Applications25 Nov 2020 | 15

Baidu cloud catches up by offloading cloudy networking and storage to SmartNICs

Also claims database breakthroughs with home-brewed MySQL-compatible code

SaaS26 Aug 2020 |

Taiwan turfs out video streamers run by China’s web giants

On regulatory grounds, but it’s hard not to chalk this up as more anti-China action

Personal Tech20 Aug 2020 | 12

Donald Trump thought-bubbles an Alibaba ban as Chinese clouds clam up about Clean Cloud plan

President says ‘other’ Chinese companies could feel the ban-hammer

SaaS17 Aug 2020 | 41

India bans 59 apps it says have privacy, national security problems. In a massive coincidence, they’re all Chinese

They may have a point with some of them, though

Applications29 Jun 2020 | 19

Google flings $25m at Social Good AI contest, Baidu's whips up neural-net camera to treat eye diseases, and more

Roundup OpenAI builds curious bots and Nvidia's on the lookout for fresh ML talent

AI + ML03 Nov 2018 | 6

Linguists, update your resumes because Baidu thinks it has cracked fast AI translation

Let's hope this doesn't accidentally kick off a war

AI + ML24 Oct 2018 | 43

US military chucks $2bn at AI, Google touts machine-learning data search, and more

Roundup The AI stories you may have missed this week

AI + ML08 Sep 2018 | 12

An AI a day keeps the doctor away... Neural net software gets better at clocking cancer tumors

Unclear if Baidu's tech really is better than a human medic

AI + ML20 Jun 2018 | 5

Who wanted a future in which AI can copy your voice and say things you never uttered? Who?!

Don't worry, this technology isn't very convincing... er, yet

AI + ML22 Feb 2018 | 115

Baidu puts open source deep learning into smartphones

Computer vision, deep learning, and the camera in your phone

AI + ML26 Sep 2017 | 4

Baidu-backed fund has a billion quid for 100 self-driving projects

China's Google also updated its open-source autonomous vehicle software

Science21 Sep 2017 |

Microsoft offers cloud to Baidu, gets autonomous car in return

Self-driving project could be a smart move by Redmond

Science06 Jul 2017 | 11

China's Baidu, GPU monster Nvidia cuddle up at Beijing dev bash

Robo-ride car tech will use Drive PX 2 hardware, plus other bits from the conference

AI + ML05 Jul 2017 |

Q. Why is Baidu sharing its secret self-driving sauce? A. To help China corner the market

Analysis Web giant wants to accelerate collaboration amid Western competition

AI + ML21 Apr 2017 | 11

Baidu teaches AI 'baby' bots English by ordering them around a maze

First step in developing family robots with general intelligence

AI + ML05 Apr 2017 | 8

Baidu peddles PaddlesPaddles, floats open source AI tech

Deep learning suite with Python front end

AI + ML02 Sep 2016 | 1

Baidu tech chief: AI smart enough to take our jobs, not our lives. Yet

ISC (RotM) Humanity about to swap tedium of work, for tedium of idleness

AI + ML20 Jun 2016 | 10

Snake oil ads land China's top search engine in trouble

Chinese regulators want Baidu to stop advertising quacks' one weird trick

Legal03 May 2016 | 9

Browser made by China's top search engine leaks almost everything

Hide our snooping? Why bother asks China's Google clone

Security24 Feb 2016 | 11

China's Google clone Baidu also open-sources its AI blueprints

Joins Google and Facebook in trying to grab market share

AI + ML14 Jan 2016 |

Sino the times, as Microsoft makes Baidu default search engine in China

Yusuf Mehdi: We’re still ‘deeply committed’ to Bing. Mmmmm

OSes24 Sep 2015 | 15

Baidu, Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm join to invest in CloudFlare

Happy to take the money, but what's in it for the Big Boys?

On-Prem23 Sep 2015 | 3

Bad Baidu boffin boss banished for bypassing bot body's bylaws

Chinese biz fires team leader after competition banishment

HPC12 Jun 2015 | 3

You've been a Baidu boy! Tech giant caught cheating on AI tests

Looks like they may need to start developing some non-artificial integrity

On-Prem05 Jun 2015 | 3

AI pioneer reckons China's where the Rise of the Machines will start

‘More willingness to challenge basic assumptions’

Personal Tech19 May 2015 | 26

Uber and car makers jockey for Nokia's 'HERE' maps – report

Who needs Google when you can have your own maps?

On-Prem08 May 2015 | 24