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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

Like working at IBM? Let Big Blue do the matchmaking

And, er, don't use those nasty apps

On-Prem13 Feb 2015 | 8

Chinese search engine Baidu to peddle SmartBike

At least it's not another smartwatch

Personal Tech28 Nov 2014 | 4

Google is tech industry and world's most valuable brand as Apple rots

Sony drops from top 100 as Chinese web brands surge up the charts

Channel21 May 2014 | 20

Baidu poaches Google Brain inventor for Silicon Valley AI project

Andrew Ng is hot property for Chinese search giant

On-Prem16 May 2014 | 1

Judge rules Baidu political censorship was an editorial right

Search engine results get freedom of speech protection in the US

Legal28 Mar 2014 | 42

Google encrypts Chinese search requests to subvert Great Firewall

Not that it has many users on the Middle Kingdom's mainland

Security14 Mar 2014 | 7

Chinese web firms sue search giant Baidu for video piracy

Updated But MPAA NOT joining copyright violations claim

Legal13 Nov 2013 | 1

Google plonks down cash for Foxconn's head-mounted display patents

'Our Glass division will have those, thank you'

Personal Tech23 Aug 2013 | 20

China's Baidu builds new type of App Store

'Light App' framework loads web apps onto smartmobes

Devops23 Aug 2013 | 5

Baidu shells out $1.9bn for Android app distie in 'China's biggest IT deal'

'Backup' app store augments Chinese search engine's existing fandroid funhouse

Applications14 Aug 2013 | 3

Chinese search giant Baidu blows $1.9 BEELION on app store

Acquisition will buy it a ready-made audience of mobile downloaders

On-Prem17 Jul 2013 | 1

US judge revives lawsuit vs Baidu and China

Pro-democracy group allowed to throw censorship sueball

Legal11 Jun 2013 | 14