Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) is the world's largest Chinese search engine, China's largest comprehensive Internet service company with information and knowledge as its core, and the world's leading artificial intelligence platform company.

Baidu's vision is to become the world's top high-tech company that understands users best and can help people grow.

[1] The word "Baidu" comes from a line written by Xin Qiji, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty 800 years ago: There are thousands of Baidu to search for him.

This sentence describes the poet's persistent pursuit of ideals.

At the end of 1999, Robin Li, who was in Silicon Valley in the United States, saw the huge development potential of China's Internet and Chinese search engine services. With the dream of changing the world with technology, he resolutely quit his high-paying job in Silicon Valley and took the patented search engine technology to launch the company in January 2000.

Baidu was founded in Zhongguancun on March 1st.

Baidu has tens of thousands of R&D engineers, which is the top technical team in China and even the world.

This team masters the most advanced search engine technology in the world, making Baidu a Chinese high-tech enterprise that masters the world's cutting-edge scientific core technologies. It also makes China one of the only four countries in the world besides the United States, Russia, and South Korea that has

One of the countries with core search engine technology.

[1] Company name Baidu Foreign name Baidu Headquarters Location Baidu Building, No. 10 Shangdi 10th Street, Haidian District, Beijing, China Date of establishment January 2000 Business scope Network information services Quick navigation Company philosophy Financial report Data Product manual Multilingual building facilities management team Baidu

Important Events Company Profile Baidu is the world's largest Chinese search engine, China's largest integrated Internet service company with information and knowledge as its core, and the world's leading artificial intelligence platform company.

Founded in Zhongguancun on January 1, 2000, the company's founder Robin Li holds a patent for "hyperlink analysis" technology, which also makes China one of the only four countries in the world besides the United States, Russia, and South Korea that possesses the core technology of search engines.

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As the world's largest Chinese search engine, Baidu responds to billions of search requests from more than 100 countries and regions every day and is the main entrance for netizens to obtain Chinese information.

With the mission of "using technology to make the complex world simpler", Baidu continues to adhere to technological innovation and is committed to "becoming the world's top high-tech company that best understands users and can help people grow."

Baidu is China's largest comprehensive Internet service company with information and knowledge as its core.

Driven by AI, Baidu's mobile ecosystem is China's largest mobile ecosystem centered on information and knowledge, with Baijiahao, smart mini programs and hosted pages as its main pillars.

In 2019, the number of Baidu users exceeded 1 billion.

Baidu App has 200 million daily active users and ranks first in China in terms of information flow.

The number of creators of Baijiahao reached 2.6 million.

Baidu Smart Mini Program is the only fully open source mini program platform in China, with monthly active users exceeding 316 million.

The six major knowledge products of Baidu Zhizhi, Baidu Encyclopedia, and Baidu Wenku have produced more than 1 billion pieces of high-quality content, building the largest knowledge content system in China.

Baidu is the world's leading artificial intelligence platform company.

Baidu Brain is China's only "AI large-scale production platform integrating software and hardware". It is the culmination of Baidu AI and exports more than 240 AI capabilities to the outside world.

Flying Paddle is China's first and currently the only fully open source and fully functional industrial-level deep learning platform in China. It is an "operating system for the intelligent era" independently developed by China.

Baidu Intelligent Cloud is an important carrier and exporter of Baidu's AI To B business and a leader in industrial intelligence.

Xiaodu Assistant is China's largest conversational artificial intelligence operating system and has the largest and most prosperous conversational artificial intelligence ecosystem in the Chinese market. In December, Xiaodu Assistant's voice interactions exceeded 5 billion times.

As the world's largest open platform for autonomous driving, Apollo represents China's strongest autonomous driving capabilities.

Currently, three major open platforms have been formed: autonomous driving, vehicle-road collaboration, and intelligent vehicle connectivity.

In terms of autonomous driving, it has achieved more than ten firsts in China, and its technical strength leads the industry.

Baidu believes in technological innovation and is at the forefront of the world in terms of innovation investment, R&D layout, and talent introduction.

According to the "Artificial Intelligence China Patent Technology Analysis Report" by the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, Baidu ranked first in the number of artificial intelligence patent applications in China in 2019 with 5,712.

Baidu has always adhered to the social responsibility concept of "technology for better", insisted on using innovative technologies, focused on solving social problems, fulfilled the social responsibilities of corporate citizens, and made continuous efforts to help global users create a better life.

Baidu has established a 300 million yuan special fund for epidemic and public health security to support a series of anti-epidemic efforts such as the screening and research and development of curative drugs for new diseases such as the new coronavirus, as well as longer-term social and public health security.

Information science popularization and dissemination, etc.

Baidu's "AI Person Tracing" project cooperates with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and has helped more than 10,000 lost people reunite with their families with the help of cross-age facial recognition technology.