The Hong Kong shares of Baidu plunged on Monday, wiping $2.4 billion off its market value, after the founder of the Chinese search engine giant was not spotted at a rare meeting between President ...

Baidu claims they offer state-of-the-art performance on a variety of metrics, besting DeepSeek’s non-reasoning V3 and OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 (how do you like the close name match Baidu chose as well ...

In 2023, Baidu launched paid premium functions for its AI service, including its text to image generator, charging users from up to 59.9 yuan ($8.2) a month. Ernie Bot has amassed 430 million ...

China’s Baidu is launching its sixth-generation robotaxi, which it claims costs less than $30,000 to manufacture. That should make Waymo and other US operators nervous. The vehicle costs less ...

Why Has Baidu Stock Been Struggling? Baidu stock has fallen by over 70% from its 2021 peak, largely due to China’s weaker-than-expected economic rebound following Covid-19.

Chinese search engine Baidu has launched two new AI models — Ernie 4.5, the latest version of the company’s foundational model first released two years ago — and a new reasoning model, Ernie X1.