Baidu News
Latest Baidu news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 9 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Baidu
Baidu is a Beijing-headquartered internet and AI company, best known for China's largest search engine and for its Ernie family of large language models and its Apollo self-driving stack. Baidu is a common lead investor in China's frontier AI startups.
Key facts
Products by Baidu
- Wenxin (ERNIE) (Autonomous Vehicle, 2023) — Wenxin, internationally branded ERNIE, is Baidu's flagship large-language-model family and the core of its generative-AI stack. It powers Baidu's Wenxiaoyan con...
- Apollo Go RT6 (Autonomous Vehicle)
Latest Baidu news
- Baidu's Apollo World Simulator Aims to Make Robotaxi Testing a Data Problem, Not a Driving Problem — Baidu launched Apollo World, an AI system that generates up to 100,000 km of simulated road driving per day to train its Apollo Go robotaxi fleet for...
- GenRobot AI Raises $100 Million to Supply Training Data for China's Robots — Beijing's GenRobot AI closed a $100 million Series A+ backed by SAIC Motor and Baidu, betting that demonstration data, not actuators, is the scarce re...
- Baidu Targets Hong Kong Primary Listing by Year-End as GPU Cloud Revenue Jumps 283% — Baidu plans to complete a primary listing in Hong Kong by the end of 2026 and expects its Wenxin foundation model to return to the top tier of AI, exe...
- TfL Grants Wayve PHV Licences for London Robotaxi Trial With Uber — Transport for London has issued Private Hire Vehicle licences to Wayve's autonomous Ford Mustang Mach-E fleet, completing the triple-lock needed to la...
- Baidu Apollo Go Kicks Off London Robotaxi Testing With Freenow By Lyft — Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 has begun public-road autonomous testing in the London Borough of Brent with Freenow by Lyft, targeting paid rides in 2027.
- Lyft's Freenow And Baidu Kick Off Apollo Go RT6 Robotaxi Tests In London — Freenow by Lyft and Baidu's Apollo Go have started road-testing the sixth-generation RT6 robotaxi in the London borough of Brent, aiming to open publi...
- Huawei, Baidu Lead China's First NPO Optical Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement — Huawei, Baidu and 20+ Chinese partners launched OPEN NPO — the country's first Multi-Source Agreement for near-packaged optics — setting a domestic st...
- China Restarts Robotaxi Permits, Momenta First To Win Shenzhen License — Beijing has quietly restarted robotaxi license issuance after a three-month pause, with Momenta securing an early Shenzhen permit and Baidu's Apollo G...
- Kling AI Raises $2.8B From Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu at $18B Valuation — Kuaishou's video AI subsidiary Kling AI closed a $2.79 billion round from Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu and BlueFive Capital at $18B, setting up a Hong Kong...