Baidu is the world's largest Chinese search engine and largest Chinese website, and the world's leading artificial intelligence company. Founded in Zhongguancun on January 1, 2000, Robin Lee, the founder of the company, has a patent for hyper chain analysis technology, making China one of the only four countries in the world with independent search engine core technology except the United States, Russia and South Korea. Based on years of layout and long-term accumulation of artificial intelligence, Baidu leads the world in the field of deep learning, and was named one of the four global AI giants by Fortune magazine in 2016.

Every day, Baidu responds to billions of search requests from more than 100 countries and regions, and is the main entrance for netizens to obtain Chinese information. Baidu's mission is to make the complex world simpler with science and technology. It constantly adheres to technological innovation and is committed to providing products and services that understand users better. Baidu mobile applications have more than 1.1 billion active devices per month.

Baidu takes technology as its faith and insists on long-term and continuous investment in technology research and development, talent introduction, etc. According to the statistics of China Patent Protection Association in 2018, Baidu has become the leader of China's AI patents with 2368 applications.

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

Thanks to the AI drive, Baidu Mobile has formed a product matrix of one super and many strong companies, and built a mobile ecosystem with 100 accounts and smart applets as the core. In March 2019, Baidu App's daily active users reached 174 million, up 28% year on year; The number of active users of good-looking videos reached 22 million, up 768% year on year; The total user duration of Baidu App and short video information stream increased by 83% year on year; The content creators of Baijia account reached 2.1 million; Active users of smart applets reached 181 million in the month, up 23% month on month.

As an important component of AI ecology, Baidu has two open ecosystems: Apollo open platform for automatic driving and DuerOS interactive AI operating system. As of January 2019, Apollo has iterated to version 3.5, with more than 135 partners. At present, Baidu has obtained more than 50 ICV road test licenses, leading the way in China. In the field of conversational AI, small assistants continue to maintain a leading position in China. As of March 2019, smart devices equipped with small assistants had reached 275 million, up 279% year on year; In March, the number of voice interactions reached 2.37 billion, up 817% year on year. According to the reports issued by IDC, Canalys, Strategy Analytics and other authoritative organizations, the small smart speaker shipments in the first quarter of 2019 ranked first in the domestic market and third in the world.