Baidu's Subsidiary Invests in Xihu Xincheng Technology


Baidu's 2026 Spring Festival red envelope campaign invested 5 billion yuan, shifting focus to the Baidu APP's Wenxin Assistant, marking a strategic pivot to 'universal AI applications'. Leveraging holiday traffic, it successfully redirected users from traditional search to AI interactions, with AI feature experiences exceeding 50 million.....
In 2026, the Spring Festival red envelope battle among internet giants has evolved from a traffic war to an AI arms race for full-scenario implementation, with Baidu and Tencent investing heavily in a tech showcase during peak traffic, signaling AI's rapid integration into daily life.....
Baidu unveils Wenxin 5.0, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal AI model with advanced language understanding and generation. It uses unified modeling to process text, images, audio, and video, enabling integrated data optimization and marking a key AI advancement.....
The competition in China's generative AI sector has entered a new phase focused on user acquisition. "Baidu Wenxin Yanyi" has exceeded 200 million monthly active users, becoming the first domestic large model to enter the 200 million club. "Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen" achieved over 100 million monthly active users within two months of launch, showing rapid growth. Baidu has adopted an "all-domain integration" strategy, fully embedding AI capabilities into core products such as search, accelerating application implementation.
Baidu's Wenshin Assistant has exceeded 200 million monthly active users, and is now known as one of the three major AI entry points in China, alongside Douban and Tongyi Qianwen. It features deep thinking and long-term memory capabilities, offering personalized recommendations based on context. Its functions cover multi-modal services such as video calls, AI creation, and photo-based Q&A, and it upgrades from information processing to intelligent services through the MCP tool.