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Baidu— the world’s largest Chinese search engine and the largest Chinese website.Baidu was founded in Zhongguancun of Beijing on January 1, 2000. With the patented hyperlink analysis technology owned by Baidu Founder Robin Li, China has joined the United States, Russia and South Korea as one of the four countries with independent core search engine technology.Baidu aims to make the complex world simpler through technology.
On a daily basis, Baidu responded to search requests from over one hundred countries and regions, which was the most important entry for netizens to obtain Chinese information. Baidu is on a mission to "Using technology to make a complex world simpler", to carry out the mission, constantly adhere to technological innovation, and strive to provide more user-friendly products and services.
Baidu, based on technological innovation, has been at the forefront of the world in terms of investment in innovation, R&D and talent recruitment. In 2017, R&D expenditure reached RMB 12.9 billion, up 27% year over year. It is a world leader in search, AI, big data and cloud services.
Baidu started in 2016 to promote AI business to the strategic goal of the company's development. Under two strategic pillars: to strengthen our mobile foundation and lead in AI, Baidu AI Ecological Improvement, AI Products, Commercial Sustainable Acceleration.
At present, Baidu has established five AI labs: Institute of Deep Learning (IDL), Big Data Lab (BDL), the Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL), Business Intelligence Lab (BIL), Robotics and Autonomous Driving Lab (RAL). With DuerOS, Apollo two large open ecology, Baidu continuous force in both intelligent life and intelligent driving. Baidu has built the AI technology platform to continuously strengthen the technical strength, providing the developers and partners with the most advanced artificial intelligence technical support.
Powered by AI, Baidu intelligent cloud business and financial business improve steadily. Baidu intelligent cloud business develops under a triune strategy of AI, big data and cloud computing. Baidu financial business is committed to constantly improving the user experience and building a win-win financial service platform with all the partners.
As an important component of Baidu's new mobile businesses, iQiyi derive synergies with Baidu from content, cloud, data and AI technologies. As of Dec. 2017, IQiyi's MAU were 540 million, and the number of paid members reached 50.8 million.
After years of commercial exploration, Baidu has formed a complete AI ecology, and has gone on the front of AI industry in the aspects of basic technical strength, commercialization, product landing speed and opening strategy. In 2018, Baidu will usher in a wider development opportunity. Through continuing strong development of "AI leading" mobile business and AI new business, continuously improve user experience, promote global AI application and landing acceleration development.
