According to a recent press release, “Today at the Baidu Create AI developer conference in Beijing, Intel Corporate Vice President Naveen Rao announced that Baidu* is collaborating with Intel on development of the new Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processor for Training (NNP-T). The collaboration involves the hardware and software designs of the new custom accelerator […]
Unity Technologies and Baidu Collaborate to Develop Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
A new press release reports, “Unity Technologies, creator of the world’s most widely used real-time 3D development platform, announced today a collaboration with Baidu Inc., China’s leading Internet Giant, to develop a real-time simulation product that creates virtual environments allowing developers to test autonomous vehicles in simulated real-world situations. The Unity-based real-time simulation will now […]
Baidu Announces EZDL, a No-code Platform to Build Custom Machine Learning Models
According to a recent press release, “Baidu, Inc. today announced the product launch of EZDL, a no-code platform to build custom machine learning models. Geared towards small and medium businesses, it is gradually breaking down the barrier to allow everyone to access AI in the most convenient and equitable way… ‘EZDL is a service platform […]
Baidu Unveils High-Performance AI Chip, Kunlun
A new press release reports, “Baidu Inc. today announced Kunlun, China’s first cloud-to-edge AI chip, built to accommodate high performance requirements of a wide variety of AI scenarios. The announcement includes training chip ‘818-300’ and inference chip ‘818-100’. Kunlun can be applied to both cloud and edge scenarios, such as data centers, public clouds and […]
NVIDIA, ZF and Baidu Launch Industry’s First AI Autonomous Vehicle Computer for China
by Angela Guess A new press release states, “NVIDIA, ZF and Baidu today announced that they are creating a production-ready AI autonomous vehicle platform designed for China, the world’s largest automotive market. At the opening press conference of CES 2018, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said that the collaboration is based on the new […]
Baidu Releases DuerOS Open Platform, Creating an Intelligent Voice Ecosystem for the Industry
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Baidu Inc. on Wednesday released the DuerOS Open Platform, a conversation-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides development tools and skill kits for developers looking to quickly build intelligent devices that anyone can interact with primarily through voice and natural language conversation.More than 100 partners are […]
NVIDIA, Baidu Announce Partnership to Accelerate AI
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “NVIDIA and Baidu today announced a broad partnership to bring the world’s leading artificial intelligence technology to cloud computing, self-driving vehicles and AI home assistants. Speaking in the keynote at Baidu’s AI developer conference in Beijing, Baidu president and COO Qi Lu described his company’s plans to […]
Baidu Advances AI in the Cloud with Latest NVIDIA Pascal GPUs
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “NVIDIA today announced that its deep learning platform is now available as part of Baidu Cloud’s deep learning service, giving enterprise customers instant access to the world’s most adopted AI tools. The new Baidu Cloud offers the latest GPU computing technology, including Pascal™ architecture-based NVIDIA® Tesla® P40 […]
Baidu Launches Augmented Reality Division as Users Embrace the Technology
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Baidu, Inc., the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, announced today it has established an Augmented Reality Lab dedicated to developing state of the art technologies and building AR-based applications for a diverse set of industries. The new lab, which is a spin-off from Baidu’s Institute of […]
Baidu Opens Up Access to Its Speech Technologies with Launch of Free APIs
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Baidu, Inc., China’s leading search engine, announced today it is making available Chinese language APIs for its four key speech technologies: Long Utterance Speech Recognition, Far-Field Speech Recognition, Expressive Speech Synthesis and Wake Word. The announcement coincides with the three-year anniversary of Baidu’s speech API launch. The […]