Baidu Comate Smart Programming Assistant to Fully Open on October 24


Baidu establishes two AI model units: Foundation Model Dept led by Wu Tian for general AI, and Application Model Dept led by Jia Lei for business-specific models, both reporting to CEO Robin Li.....
Baidu's total revenue in the third quarter reached 31.2 billion yuan, down 7% YoY, but its AI business, which was disclosed independently for the first time, achieved high growth: Infrastructure of Intelligent Cloud at 4.2 billion yuan (+33%), AI applications at 2.6 billion yuan (+6%), and AI-native marketing at 2.8 billion yuan (+262%). The three segments totaled 9.6 billion yuan, up over 50% YoY, effectively offsetting a 18% decline in online marketing revenue. The autonomous driving platform Luobo Kuaipao had 3.1 million orders in the quarter, up 212%, covering 22 cities, with a total mileage exceeding 240 million kilometers. Li Yanhong said starting from 2025
At Baidu World 2025, Robin Li's speech 'Emergence of Effects' highlighted AI's internalization as a productivity driver, shifting the industry structure from a 'pyramid' to an 'inverted pyramid' to enhance model and application value.....
Baidu launches the multimodal AI model ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, which can deeply integrate images for reasoning. The model performs excellently in multiple benchmark tests, sometimes surpassing top commercial models such as Google Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI GPT-5 High. Although it has a total of 28 billion parameters, it uses a routing architecture, activating only 3 billion parameters, achieving lightweight and efficient inference.
Baidu launches ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking with 'image thinking' for enhanced visual understanding, using 3B active parameters for efficient multi-task AI processing.....