History of Baidu:
By the end of 1999, Robin Li, who was in Silicon Valley in the United States, saw the huge potential for the development of China's Internet and Chinese search engine services, and with the dream of changing the world with technology, he resigned from his high-paying job in Silicon Valley, and with his patented search engine technology, he founded Baidu on January 1, 2000 in Zhongguancun.
In June 2003, the results of the "10,000 People Public Evaluation" organized by the China Computer Education Newspaper, a subsidiary of the third-party Saidi Group, were announced. Baidu surpassed Google as the preferred search engine for Chinese Internet users. Baidu became the world's largest Chinese search engine according to traffic indicators. 2003 Baidu released image search and news search. Baidu's PostBar was launched and became the world's largest Chinese community.
In May 2004, Baidu became the fourth largest website in the world. China's cell phone users reached 270 million. Baidu WAP search was launched and Baidu was available on cell phones.
Opened the home page for a week in 2005 to help people suffering from tsunami, launched "Baidu Know", successfully listed on NASDAQ in the U.S., creating a U.S. myth of Chinese concept stocks, with a 354% increase in stock price on the first day.
Wikipedia was launched in 2006, becoming the world's largest Chinese encyclopedia
February 2007, the title of Baidu's home page was changed from "Baidu, the world's largest Chinese search engine" to "Baidu, you will know".
May 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, the first related news on the Internet was posted by Baidu bar users. The black and white logo was launched to mourn the compatriots in the Wenchuan earthquake.
March 2009 CNNC report shows Baidu's market share is 76.9%.
December 2010, Li Keqiang visited Baidu: You are the hope of the future.
February 2011 Baidu's web search market share reaches 83.6%, another record high.
October 2011 Baidu's leadership in cloud computing receives the highest support from the NDRC specialization.
In 2012, Baidu established the LBS business unit to transform to mobile business. The then Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and Vice Premier Li Keqiang came to Baidu for research.
In 2013, Baidu acquired Nuomi, established IDL (Institute of Deep Learning), and acquired 91 Wireless for $1.91 billion.
In 2014, the integration of Baidu Nuomi was completed, the layout of O2O, the release of Baidu Wallet, Baidu released the Big Data Engine, the first time to open up big data capabilities to the public. Baidu established the U.S. R&D center and appointed Wu Enda as the chief scientist. Baidu released Portuguese search, and the technological innovation was recognized by top leaders. Baidu Maps continued to be No. 1 in the market, and the market share gap widened. Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center officially opened.
Baidu's 15th anniversary in 2015, Robin Li proposed the establishment of the "China Brain" program. Baidu Nuomi releases its "Member+" strategy and invests 20 billion dollars in 3 years to disrupt the industry. Baidu launched the "aircraft carrier program" to open up high-quality assets to investors. Baidu becomes the search engine for Windows 10 in China.
Baidu and CITIC jointly launched Baxin Bank, creating a new model of "Internet + Finance". Baidu and Allianz High Altitude jointly launched an Internet insurance company, the layout of the "Internet + Finance" to another city. Baidu Maps leads the industry with over 70% market share. Baidu's Internet finance "three-pronged axe" was launched with the cooperation of Gujin Securities.
In 2016, Baidu's machine translation won the National Science and Technology Progress Award, becoming the most popular scientific research project. Baidu released its smart car strategy. Baidu announced the reorganization of its business structure and the establishment of Baidu Search. Baidu Maps announced its internationalization strategy, covering 150 countries by the end of the year. Baidu is listed as one of the world's top 50 innovative companies, with more than 1,500 AI patents. Baidu Brain AI platform is officially released
Baidu establishes Baidu Internet Financial Assets Trading Center. Baidu created an independent venture capital firm. Baidu launches Medical Brain, officially applying AI technology to the healthcare industry. Baidu establishes Baidu Capital, the first phase of the fund size of 20 billion yuan.
In 2017, Baidu signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Hebei Provincial Government and the Xiongan New Area Administrative Committee to ****together build Xiongan into a new benchmark for AI-City smart cities. Baidu and Huawei and Xiaomi reached strategic cooperation respectively. The first batch of national new generation of artificial intelligence open innovation platform list was announced, and Baidu led the construction of automatic driving national artificial intelligence open innovation platform.
2017 Baidu World Congress was held, Baidu announced that it would mass produce unmanned vehicles in 2018, while Baidu's first benchmark AI hardware product, raven H, was launched. Baidu released mobile Baidu 10.0, which combines the dual engines of search and information flow.Baidu's second R&D center in Silicon Valley was officially operated, and Baidu's Seattle R&D center was also established at the same time, marking the initial completion of Baidu's layout in the core art circle in North America.
Baidu held the world's first AI developer conference, and Baidu's information flow business, which was established less than 9 months ago, broke the 100 million daily active users. Baidu and the Agricultural Bank of China reached a strategic cooperation, and set up a joint laboratory of financial technology. Through AI Fintech joint innovation, the two sides will **** push the banking industry into a new era of intelligent finance.
Witnessed by Premier Li Keqiang and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Baidu and Germany's Bosch Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement, and the two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in the fields of automated driving, intelligent transportation, and intelligent car networking. Baidu launched Apollo (Apollo) automatic driving platform, which is the first system-level opening of automatic driving technology on a global scale.
Baidu has more than 2,000 open Chinese patent applications in the field of artificial intelligence and hundreds of foreign patent applications. The patent layout has helped Baidu seize the technological high ground. Approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, Baidu led the preparation of China's National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning Technology and Applications was officially inaugurated.
MIT Technology Review announced the top 10 breakthrough technologies in 2017, and Baidu made the list with its leading face recognition technology, taking all the awards for artificial intelligence. Former Microsoft global executive vice president Lu Qi joined Baidu as president and chief operating officer of Baidu Group. Baidu's artificial intelligence robot Xiaodu participated in "The Strongest Brain" and won two and drew one against three human contestants without losing.
December 2018 Baidu's 2018 operating income officially exceeded 100 billion yuan. Robin Li was honored as a reform pioneer at the conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, and was awarded the Reform Pioneer Medal. In the Harvard Business Review's list of "the world's top ten most watched AI leaders", Robin Li became the only Chinese entrepreneur in the "world's top ten AI leaders".
In November 2018 Baidu signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Shanghai Municipal Government to ****together promote the construction of Shanghai's smart city, and build Shanghai into a new benchmark for AI-enabled global smart cities. China Patent Protection Association's "In-depth Analysis Report on Artificial Intelligence Technology Patents" shows that Baidu ranks first among domestic applicants with 2,368 applications, and has become the "head goose" of China's artificial intelligence technology innovation.
The world's first AI park - Haidian Park, a collaboration between Baidu and the Beijing Haidian District Government, was officially opened.2018 Baidu World Congress was held in Beijing, Baidu's AI has fully landed in the three major industries of the national economy, and it has moved from "AI technology leadership" to "application landing leadership". "The first Baidu AI park - Haidian Park - was opened.
In October 2018 Baidu became the first Chinese corporate member of Partnership on AI, participating in the development of AI global industry rules.
September 2018 Baidu App September average daily activity reached 151 million, Baidu family of more than 20 App monthly activity after de-emphasis reached 990 million, a year-on-year growth of 28%. Baidu Apollo released the world's first open-source program for vehicle-road collaboration, promoting autonomous driving to enter a new stage of collaboration between "smart cars" and "smart roads".
The Baidu Cloud Intelligence Summit was held in Shanghai, where Baidu Cloud released ABC 3.0, the industry's only AI to B platform, as well as three industry-enabling platforms, namely, Cloud Farming, Cloud Manufacturing, and Cloud Services, which will give rise to a new industry to lead the intelligent transformation.
In August 2018, the user scale of the good-looking video App exceeded 100 million, only 10 months after its launch.The number of DuerOS smart devices activated exceeded 100 million, becoming China's first conversational artificial intelligence operating system to reach a billion installed base.
In July 2018 Baidu released the Comprehensive Information Security Governance Report for the first half of 2018, dealing with 14.54 billion pieces of harmful information. Baidu has reached strategic cooperation with BMW and Daimler in the fields of automatic driving and car networking, boosting the "new engine" of Sino-German automatic driving cooperation.
The 2018 Baidu AI Developers Conference was held in Beijing, where Baidu formally released its intelligent applet, and the world's first L4-level mass-produced self-driving bus, Apollo, rolled off the assembly line.
In June 2018, Baidu officially released its first own-brand smart speaker, Xiaodu Smart Speaker.
In May 2018, Baidu and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government entered into a strategic cooperation to build the "Tianjin Smart Harbor" through the landing and empowerment of Baidu's "AI CITY" strategy in Tianjin.
In April 2018, Baidu's financial services business group completed the split, and after the split, the new company will use a new brand "Du Xiaoman" to realize independent operation. Robin Li and his wife donated 660 million yuan to Peking University, and jointly established the "Peking University Baidu Fund", which will be used for research and exploration of artificial intelligence and other related disciplines.
March 2018 AQI rang the bell at NASDAQ, officially listing in the United States. Baidu established the Smart Life Business Group (SLG) to further focus on conversational AI systems and continue to ramp up its smart hardware layout.
In February 2018, Baidu became the only Chinese company on the MIT Technology Review's 2018 list of the world's top 10 breakthrough technologies, and was listed as a "key player" in the field of real-time voice translation. Baidu Apollo self-driving car drove on CCTV Spring Festival Gala Zhuhai Branch, showing self-driving "China speed".
In January 2018, Robin Li became the first Chinese Internet entrepreneur to appear on the cover of Time magazine with the title "the Innovator".
Expanded: p>Origin of Baidu: At the end of 1999, Robin Li, who was in Silicon Valley in the U.S., saw the huge potential for the development of the Internet and Chinese search engine services in China, and with the dream of changing the world with technology, he resolutely resigned from his high-paying job in Silicon Valley, and, with the patented search engine technology, he founded Baidu in Zhongguancun on January 1, 2000, which is located in the heart of the city of Zhongguancun. Since then, Baidu has made it its mission to "provide people with the most equal and convenient access to information, and to find what they are looking for". Since its inception, the company has adhered to the concept of "user first", and has continued to insist on technological innovation, and is committed to providing users with "simple and reliable" information. The company's mission is to provide users with "simple and reliable" Internet search products and services. "Baidu" name origin: The word "Baidu" comes from a phrase of the Southern Song Dynasty poet Xin Qiji, who wrote 800 years ago: "We are looking for him in a thousand places". "Baidu" LOGO source: The idea of the "bear paw" icon comes from the excitement of "hunters patrolling bear claws".
After that, because most of the search quotes have animal images to image, such as SOHU's fox, such as GOOGLE's dog, and Baidu is also naturally called the bear. The Baidu bear has also become the image of Baidu.
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