Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal New ‘Deep Search’ thinking and planning bot to go up against peoples’ champion DeepSeek AI + ML14 Feb 2025 | 2
AI 'bubble' will burst 99 percent of players, says Baidu CEO Asia In Brief Plus: Australian bank glitch empties accounts; China online slang crackdown; Toshiba teams with Airbus; and more AI + ML20 Oct 2024 | 18
Researchers warn robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and paint daubed on cardboard Use Baidu's platform to show how the fusion of Lidar, radar, and cameras can be fooled by stuff from your kids' craft box Research03 Jun 2024 | 34
Samsung disputes report Nvidia isn't happy with its HBM quality Asia In Brief PLUS: Indian TV channel adopts 24x7 AI anchors; Google building first Africa-Australia sub cable; Singtel's strategy reset; and more Systems27 May 2024 |
Two weeks ago, Alibaba Cloud bragged its AI was soaring. Now it's slashing prices ByteDance added a cheap service and the market followed it down AI + ML22 May 2024 | 1
Baidu's robotaxi division to wheel into profit next year Expansion set for Wuhan. Chances this will go smoothly? Personal Tech17 May 2024 | 18
GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs Cameras tested are specced for Baidu's Apollo Research10 May 2024 | 51
Baidu's PR head has a PR problem after workaholic social media posts Updated Praising 996 culture is so Jack Ma 2019 Bootnotes09 May 2024 | 15
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