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Baidu-backed Apollo Go starts public driverless taxi service in Abu Dhabi

Apollo Go, the autonomous ride-hailing unit of China’s Baidu, said on Saturday it has launched fully driverless commercial ride-hailing services open to the public in Abu Dhabi, marking its first overseas deployment of such services. The service, launched in partnership with UAE-based autonomous mobility company AutoGo, allows residents and tourists to hail fully autonomous vehicles […]

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Baidu Q3 adjusted net profit declines, while AI revenue grows over 50%

On Tuesday, Baidu released its financial results for the third quarter of 2025, reporting total revenue of RMB 31.2 billion ($4.37 billion). Adjusted net profit reached RMB 3.77 billion ($52.78 million), down 35.9% year-on-year. However, the company’s AI business showed strong performance, with its first disclosed AI revenue growing over 50% year-on-year to nearly RMB […]

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Baidu may launch Xiaodu AI Glasses next month

Baidu may launch its Xiaodu AI Glasses at the Baidu World 2025 conference in November, with sales scheduled to begin later this year, according to The STAR Market Daily. The device is billed as the company’s first AI glasses powered by a Chinese large language model, offering first-person video capture, real-time question answering, calorie and […]

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Baidu open-sources ERNIE 4.5 series models, including multimodal MoE architecture

Baidu has officially open-sourced its ERNIE 4.5 series, releasing 10 models on Hugging Face, GitHub and its own PaddlePaddle ecosystem. The lineup includes large-scale MoE (mixture of experts) models with activated parameter sizes of 47 billion and 3 billion (total parameters up to 424 billion), plus smaller dense models at 0.3 billion parameters. A key […]

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Luo Yonghao’s digital avatar draws over 13 million viewers in AI-powered Baidu live commerce debut

On June 15, Luo Yonghao’s digital avatar hosted its first livestream on Baidu’s e-commerce platform, attracting more than 13 million views and generating over 55 million yuan ($7.66 million) in gross merchandise value. Several 3C and food product categories reportedly surpassed the sales figures from Luo’s real-person debut in May, marking a new high for […]

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