Baidu takes technology as its belief and adheres to long-term and sustainable investment in technology research and development and talent introduction. According to the China Patent Protection Association in 2018, Baidu became China's leading artificial intelligence patent company with 2,368 applications.

 

Under the strategic guidance of "consolidating the mobile foundation and winning the era of AI", Baidu's mobile ecology has become more prosperous and powerful. AI has accelerated the promotion of industrial intelligence, and the AI ecology has continued to expand and improve.

 

Drized by AI, Baidu Mobile has formed a product matrix of "one super, many strong" and built a mobile ecology with "Baijiahao" and "intelligent small program" as the core. In March 2019, Baidu App had 174 million daily active users, up 28% from the same period last year. Daily active users of good-looking videos reached 22 million, up 768 percent year on year; The total user length of Baidu's App and short video streams increased by 83% year-on-year; The number of content creators on 100 accounts reached 2.1 million; Monthly active users of smart miniprograms reached 181 million, up 23 percent month-on-month.

 

As an important part of the AI ecosystem, Baidu has two major open ecosystems: the Apollo open platform for autonomous driving and the DuerOS conversational AI operating system. As of January 2019, Apollo has iterated to version 3.5, with more than 135 partners. So far, Baidu has obtained more than 50 road test licenses for intelligently connected vehicles, far ahead in China. In the field of conversational AI, Xiao Du Assistant continues to maintain its leading position in China. As of March 2019, the number of smart devices equipped with Xiaodu Assistant reached 275 million, up 279% year on year; The number of voice interactions reached 2.37 billion in March, up 817 percent year on year. According to a report released by IDC, Canalys, Strategy Analytics and other authoritative institutions, in the first quarter of 2019, Xiao Du's smart speaker shipments ranked first in the domestic market and third in the world.