Welcome to our dedicated page for Baidu news (Ticker: BIDU), a resource for investors and traders seeking the latest updates and insights on Baidu stock.
Baidu, Inc. (BIDU) is described as a leading AI company with a strong internet foundation, and its news flow reflects this focus on artificial intelligence, cloud services, and autonomous driving. Founded in 2000 and listed on both Nasdaq and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Baidu regularly issues updates on its technology roadmap, financial performance, and international expansion.
Recent news highlights Baidu’s autonomous ride-hailing platform Apollo Go, which the company reports has completed more than 17 million cumulative rides and logged over 240 million autonomous kilometers. Announcements cover key milestones such as securing Dubai’s first autonomous driving trial permits and driverless vehicle trial permits, obtaining one of Abu Dhabi’s inaugural fully driverless commercial permits, and partnering with PostBus to deploy autonomous vehicles in Switzerland. These stories illustrate how Apollo Go is expanding its footprint across multiple cities and regions.
Other Baidu news focuses on core AI developments and cloud services. At its Baidu World 2025 conference, the company unveiled ERNIE 5.0, a natively omni-modal foundation model, and introduced upgrades to AI agents, digital human technology, and no-code application builders like Miaoda and MeDo. Earnings releases provide detail on Baidu’s AI Cloud Infra, AI Applications, and AI-native Marketing Services, showing how AI is embedded across its business.
On this BIDU news page, readers can follow company press releases, technology launches, partnerships, financing announcements such as CNY-denominated senior notes offerings, and quarterly results. For investors, analysts, and technology observers, the stream of Baidu news offers insight into how the company is developing its AI portfolio, scaling Apollo Go, and positioning its AI-native products in domestic and international markets.
Baidu announced significant advancements in its Apollo smart driving solutions during an automotive intelligence conference in Beijing on April 16, 2023. By 2026, it predicts that 15% of smart cars will feature its L2+ level intelligent driving capabilities. The Apollo City Driving Max has been upgraded with a lightweight HD map, while Apollo Highway Driving Pro will launch on Black Sesame Semiconductor's Huashan II A1000 chip in Q3. Baidu's systems now support 134 models across 31 brands, totaling over 7 million vehicles. The launch of the Baidu Apollo Self Driving Openness White Paper introduces four key capabilities aimed at enhancing collaboration with car manufacturers. These measures will streamline the integration of intelligent driving in vehicles, helping establish a new car-manufacturing supply chain.
36Kr Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: KRKR) announced the adoption of AIGC technology to enhance its content ecosystem. This transition is expected to significantly boost content production efficiency and reduce costs, with the text-to-image function promising to cut image generation costs dramatically. The technology will facilitate faster text creation and translation, saving on editing resources. Additionally, the 36Kr Enterprise Service Review Platform has seen a more than 90% improvement in user interaction through AIGC integration. Furthermore, 36Kr has joined Baidu's (NASDAQ: BIDU) ERNIE Bot ecosystem, positioning itself as an industry leader in leveraging AIGC for content production.
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) announced on March 22, 2023 that it has filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This report is available on the Company’s investor relations website. Shareholders and ADS holders can request a hard copy of the report containing audited consolidated financial statements at no cost. Additionally, Baidu published a Hong Kong Annual Report today, containing similar information, compliant with HKEx regulations.
Baidu has achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first company globally to receive a permit for fully driverless robotaxi services in Beijing. This permits Baidu to deploy a fleet of 10 autonomous vehicles in the Yizhuang Economic Development Zone. As the only operator providing fully driverless ride-hailing in multiple cities across China, including Wuhan and Chongqing, Baidu's Apollo Go service is experiencing rapid growth, delivering over 561,000 rides in Q4 2022 alone. The company holds over 4,600 patents in this field and aims to create the world's largest driverless ride-hailing area in 2023.
Baidu has launched ERNIE Bot, a new-generation large language model (LLM) aimed at enhancing generative AI capabilities. Unveiled on
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