The Baidu World Conference 2023 Will Be Held, with Wenxin Yiyan Upgrading Again and a New Look for Baidu Search


At the recent Baidu AI Day open day, Baidu Search announced its largest-scale overhaul in a decade. This reform covered the search box, search results page, and the entire search ecosystem. This move is an active transformation by Baidu to actively adapt to industry development trends and expand the boundaries of search capabilities. The upgraded Baidu Search box is now called the 'Smart Box,' significantly enhancing its input capabilities, supporting text input of over a thousand characters. At the same time, various input methods such as photography, voice, and video have been comprehensively improved and can directly access AI writing and AI image creation.
Today, Baidu's Xiaodu officially announced its integration with DeepSeek. Previously, Baidu Maps, Baidu Search, Baidu Apollo Smart Cabin Model, Wenxin Yiyan, and Wenxiaoyan App have successively integrated with DeepSeek.
According to a message released by the 'Baidu Search' public account on February 16, Baidu Search and the Wenxin Smart Agent platform will integrate DeepSeek and the deep search capabilities of the Wenxin large model to provide users with a higher quality search experience. The DeepSeek deep search function officially launched on February 13, featuring powerful planning and tool-calling capabilities. This new functionality aims to provide users with expert-level content responses and can handle multi-scenario task requirements, including support for multi-modal inputs and outputs. This means that users not only can...
Today, Baidu announced an important plan: in the coming months, it will gradually launch the new Ernie Large Model 4.5 series, which is scheduled to be officially open-sourced to the public on June 30. This initiative marks Baidu's continued dedication and innovation in the field of artificial intelligence.
Baidu announced its financial report for the third quarter of 2024 yesterday, showing total revenue of 33.6 billion RMB, a 3% decrease compared to the same period last year. In terms of net profit, Baidu's net profit attributable to the company was 7.6 billion RMB, while the non-GAAP net profit was 5.9 billion RMB. During the subsequent earnings conference call, Baidu's senior management, including Chairman and CEO Li Yanhong, President of the Mobile Ecosystem Group Luo Rong, President of the Intelligent Cloud Group Shen Dou, and Acting CFO He Junjie, provided detailed insights on the highlights of the report.