Baidu also outlined plans to make its AI chatbot Ernie Bot free from April 1, with the new model likely to be launched in the run-up to this shift. The Chinese internet giant has rushed to ...

Investors looking for companies they can invest in to benefit from the growth of AI in China have generally focused on leading tech companies like Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) and Baidu (NASDAQ ...

Similarly, Baidu's net cash position was $11 billion. Pristine financial health is a significant advantage for both giants, since investing in AI is costly and spans years, if not decades.

Alibaba and Baidu are diversified and profitable. Baidu is a pure AI play with massive investment in autonomous driving. Alibaba leverages AI beyond its cloud computing to enhance its other ...

This growth underscores the increasing significance of AI-driven services as Baidu strategically shifts toward an open-source model with its ERNIE large language model. Baidu has stated that ...

has drawn attention to the notable absence of Baidu founder Robin Li. Market observers speculate this absence... Save my User ID and Password Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in ...

Chinese search engine giant Baidu reported a 2% drop in quarterly revenue, dragged down by a slowdown in the advertising business, though offset by gains from cloud AI. For the three months ...

Baidu’s AI Cloud growth beats estimates, with ERNIE 4.5 and free AI bot driving broader adoption and monetization opportunities. Analyst sees Baidu as a key AI winner in China, raising 2025 ...

Nomura believes Baidu’s efforts to monetize AI search could be “derailed” by competitors’ insistence on a clean and advertising-free AI search in order to grab users. Baidu’s track ...

The CEO of Chinese tech giant Baidu says DeepSeek's virality pushed the company to make its own artificial intelligence model open source. Open-source models allow for the free and open sharing of ...