Baidu Launches AI Interactive 'New Search' with Listening, Understanding, and Visual Capabilities


Sun Tianxiang joins Baidu as head of Basic Model R&D, entering the Model Committee. Baidu has split its LLM R&D into Basic and Application Model departments, with the former focused on Wenxin foundation model breakthroughs, strengthening organizational and talent layout to accelerate tech iteration.....
Sina's VibeThinker-3B, a 3B-parameter model, rivals much larger models in math and coding benchmarks, surpassing top products on certain competition tasks. Its success stems from unique training on Alibaba's Qwen2, challenging the 'bigger is better' paradigm.....
Baidu open-sources a 3B-parameter end-to-end OCR model called Unlimited OCR, specifically designed for long documents such as books and papers. The project exceeded 10,000 GitHub stars within 5 days and topped four trending lists. Technically, the model activates approximately 570M parameters, and it innovatively introduces the Reference Sliding Window Attention mechanism, breaking the limitation of page-by-page stitching, supporting continuous parsing of dozens of pages at once, and significantly improving the efficiency of processing long documents.
Baidu's AI chip company, Kunlun Chip, is advancing its plan to go public in Hong Kong, with a target valuation of $50 billion. As a core component of Baidu's AI hardware ecosystem, its listing not only marks a milestone in its capitalization but also injects new variables into the global AI computing power competition. Kunlun Chip has launched multiple generations of self-developed cloud AI chips, which have drawn significant attention from the industry.
On June 25, Baidu Wenxin Yanyan released an upgrade notice, announcing the deep integration of the platform architecture and service entry points. Starting from midnight on June 25, 2026, the official website question-answering entrance will be upgraded. Users will need to use AI functions such as intelligent dialogue, creative writing, office assistance, and information queries, and experience the latest Wenxin large model through the new entrance.