- Baidu presented its latest advances across a range of its
mobile products, including Baidu Search, Baidu Wenku, and the Baidu
App, all seamlessly integrated with ERNIE agents.
- The revamped Baidu Wenku provides over 100 multimodal AI
features, which have been used more than 1.5 billion times by over
140 million users.
- Baidu AgentBuilder has served over 160,000 developers and users
and more than 50,000 enterprises, covering over 100 application
scenarios.
SUZHOU, China, May 31, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX:
9888), a leading AI company with a
strong Internet foundation, unveiled its latest progress across its
mobile ecosystem on Thursday, including Baidu Search, the ERNIE Bot
App, the Baidu App, Baidu Wenku, among others – all strategically
integrated with large language models (LLMs) and ERNIE agents. The
announcements, made at the Wanxiang Conference 2024, an annual
event for Baidu's Mobile Ecosystem Group (MEG), mark the company's
latest commitment to lower the entry barrier for individuals and
enterprises to fully harness the power of AI.
"Agent means productivity," said Jackson
He, Senior Corporate Vice President of Baidu and General
Manager of MEG, in his keynote speech "Making agents accessible
to everyone" at the conference. "[With agents],
everyone can create and be equipped with superpowers."
Baidu's Mobile Ecosystem offers a uniquely advantageous platform
to develop and grow agents, enhancing content and services for
hundreds of millions of users.
- Core services like Baidu Search are already AI-augmented, with
11% of search result pages filled with generated results.
For creative needs such as presentation visuals, the Baidu AI
Image Assistant can generate and even "edit" images simply by
inputting text prompts.
- On Baidu App, users can now access the Interactive
Channel, where they can engage in multi-turn dialogue, as well as
tag specialized agents to address various issues.
- Baidu Wenku, an integrated platform for document archiving,
content creation, and content sharing, has now evolved into an
AI-assisted "one-stop shop" for content consumption and creation.
With a collection of 1.2 billion high-quality document resources,
Baidu Wenku provides over 100 multimodal AI features, which
have been used more than 1.5 billion times by over 140
million users.
- Baidu Wenku also introduced Chengpian, a new AI application
able to execute complex tasks, including professional knowledge
retrieval and Q&A, extended image-text understanding and
generation, in-depth article editing and organization, as well as
cross-modal freestyle creation.
- ERNIE Bot App, Baidu's generative AI app, now plays the
role of a 24/7 online personal intelligent assistant, providing
one-on-one assistance and meeting diverse needs.
For enterprise partners, agents offer
the key to unlocking the vast potential of foundation models to
enable intelligent transformation. Agents can help to solve
many longstanding business operations needs, such as enhancing
supply-demand matching and increasing operational efficiency.
In the e-commerce sector, Baidu Select, launched in May 2023, leverages advanced AI tools such as
merchant knowledge graphs and ERNIE, to help merchant customers
understand user needs and provide personalized shopping
recommendations. The addition of Huiboxing, the industry's first
full-chain digital human livestream platform powered by AI, allows
for the creation of 24/7 digital human streamers. This has helped
e-tail customers boost sales performance with lower costs. Baidu
Select has seen a 227% GMV increase for the Jan-May period
year-on-year, with user transactions and active merchants rising by
283% and 242% respectively.
To help developers and individuals create agent effortlessly,
Baidu's AgentBuilder offers zero code and low code modes for
agent development and deployment. It provides a full-chain solution
from AI development to distribution and monetization. It supports
natural language interaction and allows the creation of up to 50
agents on one account. Developers can also integrate customized
plugins to realize specific functions, further simplifying the
development process.
Today, AgentBuilder has served over 160,000 developers and
users and more than 50,000 enterprises, covering over
100 application scenarios. The platform houses a diverse
range of agents, from small-scale agents developed by individuals
like copywriters, and corporate trainers, to bigger-scale agents
developed by enterprises and organizations such as OPPO and the
Singapore Tourism Board.
In developing the agent ecosystem, Baidu holds two key
advantages, He explained at the event. The first is the company's
technological advantage in AI. Underpinning Baidu's agents is the
powerful ERNIE foundation model, China's most advanced and widely applied
foundation model, with industry-leading performance in
understanding, generation, reasoning, and memory capabilities. The
second advantage lies in Baidu's massive user traffic. Baidu App
has a monthly active user base of 676 million and is used by 9.7
million creators, making it a vibrant and vast ecosystem supported
by the mutual interaction and growth of both creators and
users.
"This is an era where everyone has a chance to rise - everyone
can participate and create," He said. Noting that agent offers
a strong new impetus for inclusivity in AI, he encouraged every
individual to embrace agents to fully unleash their creative
potential.
About Baidu
Founded in 2000, Baidu's mission is to make the complicated
world simpler through technology. Baidu is a leading AI company
with a strong Internet foundation. Baidu is traded on the NASDAQ
Global Select Market under the symbol "BIDU", and on the main board
of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "9888".
Currently, one ADS represents eight Class A ordinary shares.
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