Baidu WeChat Official Account recently announced that the 2024 Baidu World Conference will be held on November 12th in Shanghai. This conference is Baidu's most important annual technology and product launch event, having been held consecutively for 18 years since 2006.
Last year, Baidu founder Robin Li introduced the Wenxin Large Model 4.0 at the conference, with the theme "Hand in Hand: Teach You to Build AI-Native Applications," showcasing Baidu's new search, maps, document library, and cloud storage among other AI applications.
The Wenxin Large Model leads in domestic usage, with daily calls exceeding 700 million times, a more than 13-fold increase compared to the 50 million times in December of the previous year. This year, based on the Wenxin Large Model 4.0, Baidu has released the tool version and Turbo version, and introduced lightweight models such as ERNIE Speed, ERNIE Lite, and ERNIE Tiny, further enhancing user experience.
Additionally, Baidu has recently upgraded the Baige AI Heterogeneous Computing Platform 4.0 and the Qianfan Large Model Platform 3.0, aiming to help enterprises utilize large models faster and more efficiently. The Qianfan platform has accumulated over 30,000 fine-tuned large models and developed more than 700,000 enterprise-level applications, indicating strong market demand.
As intelligent agents gradually become the mainstream of AI-native applications, Baidu's intelligent agent ecosystem is rapidly expanding. According to Baidu's second-quarter financial report, there are currently 16,000 merchants developing intelligent agents on its platform, covering education, law, B2B, and other industries, with daily distribution reaching 10 million times.