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


The 2025 Hong Kong Fintech Week focuses on the integration of fintech and AI, bringing together guests such as Carrie Lam and Geoffrey Hinton. Zhu Guang, CEO of Du Xiaoman, emphasized the innovative applications of large models in financial services, driving customer service from monthly surveys to real-time responses, achieving a revolutionary transformation centered around customer-centricity.
"Baidu E-commerce Selection" brand uses large model technology to optimize risk control review, achieving full machine review, instant feedback, and high interpretability, solving the problems of low efficiency and slow response in traditional manual review, and enhancing e-commerce security and user experience.
A study by the University of Chicago found significant differences in the performance of AI text detectors, with some tools having high accuracy but others frequently misclassifying, especially in short texts. The Pangram detector performed best in terms of accuracy and cost-effectiveness. The study, based on 1992 human texts and four mainstream large models, covered six types of texts and revealed shortcomings in the reliability and robustness of detectors.
Artificial intelligence company Perplexity has reached a long-term image licensing agreement with Getty Images, allowing the use of Getty's images in its AI search tool. This marks a significant strategic shift for Perplexity from past controversies over content scraping and plagiarism (such as being accused of stealing Getty images) towards establishing formal and legal content partnerships.
CCTV reported on the issue of AI-generated fake news. Li Liang, Vice President of Douyin, responded that AI is a double-edged sword: although it can spread rumors easily, Douyin is using AI to combat rumors and develop intelligent agents to quickly search for authoritative information to debunk false claims.