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Chinese internet and AI technology company
baidu.com- Headquarters
- Beijing, China
- Founded year
- 2000
- Company type
- Public company
- Number of employees
- 25,000+
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Latest news about Baidu
In short: Baidu released its high-efficiency Ernie 5.1 AI model and faced regulatory scrutiny following a major robotaxi service failure in Wuhan.
Company announcements
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Baidu launches ERNIE 5.1
It upgrades search, reasoning, and creative capabilities with reduced costs. ERNIE 5.1 ranks No. 4 on LMArena's Search Leaderboard.
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Baidu's DuMate tops PinchBench and DeepResearch Bench
DuMate secures top two spots on PinchBench and #1 on DeepResearch Bench with 58.03 score. Next updates at Baidu Create 2026.
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Baidu releases GenFlow 4.0
It features 100 million MAU, 200 million monthly tasks, upgraded Office Agent, and OpenClaw integration. Baidu Create 2026 announces Agents at Scale theme.
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Baidu launches ERNIE-Image on ERNIE Bot
The open-source 8B text-to-image model excels in text rendering, instruction following, and structured generation. It leads benchmarks and integrates with 50+ platforms.
Media coverage
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Original: Baidu AI randomly 'sentences' people, causing lawsuit, loses both trials, still hasn't apologized and court files case
Imagine, during your leisure time, you type your name into a search engine, and the page immediately pops up a paragraph, assertively telling you 'you have been sentenced,' and even conveniently includes your high-definition work photo below! This sounds like a plot from a magical realism novel, but it actually happened to a professional lawyer in China. Recently, the first case in the country involving AI-generated content infringing on reputation rights came to an end. As an internet giant, Baidu lost both trials, but shockingly, despite the effective verdict, Baidu has been reluctant to fulfill its apology obligation, forcing the other party to...
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Baidu Intelligent Cloud launches new product, reducing token consumption by 23% compared to OpenClaw
On May 13, at the Create2026 Baidu AI Developer Conference, Baidu founder Robin Li proposed for the first time a metric for the AI era—Daily Active Agents (DAA). He believes that to cope with the explosion of agents, it is necessary to build full-stack capabilities of 'core, cloud, model, and agent'...
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Baidu Create Conference Launches Multiple AI Achievements
From May 13 to 14, the Create 2026 Baidu AI Developer Conference was held in Beijing. Focusing on the explosion of intelligent agent applications, Baidu released and upgraded a series of products including the general intelligent agent DuMate, the code intelligent agent MiaoDa, the digital human intelligent agent Baidu OneMirror, and the self-evolving decision-making intelligent agent FaMou. Baidu Intelligent Cloud also upgraded to a new full-stack AI cloud for large-scale intelligent agent applications. Baidu founded ...
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DAU is exiting, Token is not the final answer, Baidu wants to rewrite the value metric of the AI era with DAA
DAA — becoming a better ruler. Over the past year, the temperature difference in the large model industry has been felt by more and more people. On one hand, there is the "deflation" carnival of large model technology. With the domestic closed loop of underlying computing architecture and the exponential leap in algorithm efficiency, token prices have dropped significantly, and the arms race for model parameters has entered the deep water area of diminishing marginal returns. But on the other hand, after three years of technological baptism, the industry still faces a soul-searching question: although everyone is using AI, how do you measure how much work AI has actually helped you accomplish? The root of this confusion lies in the misalignment of metrics...
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