2000
Baidu launched in 2000 as a search engine platform.
“Baidu launched in 2,000 as a search engine platform.”
Topic
Baidu
17 facts from 4 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2014
Dario Amodei says he joined the AI field in late 2014, working at Baidu with Andrew Ng on speech recognition.
“I first joined the AI world when I was, uh, working at Baidu with Andrew Ng in late 2014, which is almost exactly ten years ago now.”
2021
Ray Ma says investors treat Baidu mainly as an autonomous driving company with its search business as a bonus.
“you're basically investing in Baidu as a autonomous driving company and you're getting the search business for free.”
2023
Robin Li said Baidu launched ERNIE Bot on March 16 of the year before the interview.
“We launched Ernie Bot, um, I think March 16th, uh, of last year.”
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Dario Amodei worked at Baidu, then Google for a year, then OpenAI for five years before founding Anthropic.
“I was at Baidu for a bit, I was at Google for a year, I worked at OpenAI for 5 years”
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Alison Beard describes Baidu as one of the few companies in the world offering a full AI stack.
“it's now one of the few companies in the world that offers a full AI stack.”
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Adi Ignatius said Baidu's ERNIE Bot had more than 300 million users.
“your company introduced a ChatGPT-like product, Ernie Bot, last year that last I saw has more than 300 million users.”
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Robin Li said Baidu reduced ERNIE Bot's inference cost by about 99%, to roughly 1% of the original cost.
“being able to reduce the cost by about 99%, meaning the current inference cost is about 1% of the original cost”
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Robin Li said Baidu's internal customers for ERNIE Bot include Baidu Search, Baidu Maps and Baidu Wenku.
“our internal customers, Baidu search, Baidu map, and, uh, uh, Baidu, uh, Wenku.”
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Robin Li said Baidu charges the inference cost for API calls to its ERNIE models.
“basically we we charge, uh, the the the inference cost for those, uh, API calls.”
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Robin Li said Baidu has more than 400 robotaxis in Wuhan, a city of about 9 million people.
“we now have more than 400 cars in the city of Wuhan that covers about 9 million people”
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Robin Li said Baidu's robotaxi brand is Apollo Go and its fares are typically cheaper than regular taxis.
“Our brand is called Apollo Go. They pay a fare that's typically, you know, cheaper than, uh, uh, regular taxi.”
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Robin Li said Baidu's strategy is to rebuild almost all of its existing products on the ERNIE Bot foundation model.
“Companies like Baidu, our strategy is to reconstruct and rebuild almost every one of our existing product based on the Ernie Bot, um, foundation model.”
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Robin Li said over 18% of Baidu search results were generated by ERNIE Bot.
“right now, over 18% of the Baidu search result, uh, are they generated by, uh, Ernie Bot.”
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Robin Li said Baidu can now create digital humans to host live-streaming shopping, with scripts generated by ERNIE Bot.
“we now can create digital digital human to do live streaming shopping.”
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Robin Li said Baidu is a NASDAQ-listed public company that complies with applicable law.
“Baidu is a NASDAQ-listed, uh, public company, and, uh, we would follow, we will we we would comply with any applicable law.”
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Robin Li said Baidu has a data compliance committee chaired by high-ranking executives.
“We have, uh, uh, uh, data, uh, compliance committee within, uh, our company with, uh, very, uh, high-ranking executives, um, uh, being the the chair”
Episodes
- 5 May 2021Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)1h 20m
- 11 Nov 2024#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity5h 22m
- 14 Nov 2024Future of Business: Baidu’s Robin Li on the Technology Trends that Will Transform Business22m
- 26 Jun 2024Dario Amodei CEO of Anthropic: Claude, New models, AI safety and Economic impact1h 11m