Baidu / ERNIE

Baidu Dazi now syncs task context between desktop and phone, so you can pick up where you left off across devices. The desktop version gets an embedded browser that auto-opens pages for research and downloads; the phone side supports cloud remote control. Baidu claims 20% faster task completion, 25% better token utilization, 100% simple-task accuracy, 94% complex-task delivery rate, and up to 75% lower credit cost. The post doesn't disclose testing methodology or baselines—treat the numbers as directional.

FT reports that Wuhan’s mass deployment of robotaxis has halved ride-hailing driver incomes. Baidu’s Apollo Go runs over 1,000 driverless cars in the city, with daily peak orders exceeding 200,000 and per-km pricing undercutting Didi’s regular rides. Drivers interviewed say monthly earnings dropped from ¥8,000 to ¥3,000–4,000. The article doesn’t give a citywide unemployment figure, but it quotes multiple drivers who are quitting or selling their cars. This is FT field reporting, not an industry PR piece—just keep in mind the sample is Wuhan-specific.

The Pentagon reinstated Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD as U.S. national security risks after removing the three companies in February; the RSS snippet does not disclose the legal basis, timetable, or company responses.

Baidu reported that its core AI-driven business generated more than RMB 13.6 billion in Q1 2026, up 49% year over year, and accounted for more than half of Baidu’s general business revenue for the first time.

Baidu reported a 1% revenue decline as growth in nascent AI businesses offset shrinking traditional internet revenue; the post does not disclose AI sales, advertising revenue, or details of the agentic AI pivot.

Baidu launched the Miaoda app and Miaoda Enterprise Edition, saying 90% of the Miaoda app’s code was generated by Miaoda itself; Miaoda-generated apps have served over 10 million users and reached a total value of RMB 5 billion.

Baidu launched Miaoda 3.0 at its 2026 Create conference, adding iOS and Android app generation, Android packaging, online hot updates, and an enterprise edition with three-level permissions, environment isolation, and SLA commitments.

Baidu released ERNIE 5.1 with total parameters reduced to about one third of the original scale, active parameters to about one half, and pretraining cost to about 6% of same-scale models; the model is available on the ERNIE platform and Baidu AI Studio.

Baidu released ERNIE 5.1, saying it builds on ERNIE 5.0 pretraining and improves search, reasoning, knowledge QA, creative writing, and agent capabilities, with pretraining cost at about 6% of comparable models.

Bloomberg says a mishandled Pentagon blacklist of Alibaba and Baidu strained US-China tech ties. The RSS snippet does not disclose blacklist terms, timing, or company impact. The key signal is US policy conflict over China tech controls.