At the Baidu Cloud Smart Conference held on September 25, 2024, Baidu Intelligent Cloud announced a series of significant upgrades for enterprise AI applications, aimed at helping businesses utilize large models more efficiently and economically. These upgrades include version 4.0 of the Baijie AI Heterogeneous Computing Platform and version 3.0 of the Qianfan Large Model Platform, as well as a comprehensive update of AI native application products such as the Code Assistant, Intelligent Customer Service, and Digital Humans.

At the Baidu Cloud Intelligence Conference held today, Tang Jiayu, co-founder and CEO of Shengshu Technology, announced that Vidu, the first domestic video large model, officially opens its API and integrates with Baidu Intelligent Cloud's Qianfan Large Model Platform, becoming the first video large model on this platform. Vidu's self-developed video generation technology boasts advantages such as high dynamism, diverse styles, and exceptional reasoning. It has also launched the 'Subject Reference' feature globally, effectively solving the problem of consistent video model generation. Since its launch at the end of July, Vidu has received thousands of enterprise user integrations.

Recently, Baidu Intelligent Cloud's Qianfan Large Model Platform and three other AI native applications — Xiling, Keyue, and Zhenzhi — successfully passed the ISO/IEC 42001 standard certification for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems and were awarded the world's first certification for large model platform application systems. This certification indicates that Baidu's products and management systems have reached an internationally leading level in quality, safety, and compliance.

Baidu Intelligent Cloud showcased its latest advancements in the traffic big model sector at the 2024 China International Big Data Industry Expo. By integrating with Baidu's traffic big data, it significantly enhanced the efficiency of omni-directional signal control, improving traffic flow by 20-30%. In the pilot project in Guiyang's Guanshanhu District, the application of AI signal control technology led to a 15% reduction in average weekday vehicle delay. This system integrates internet and local traffic police data to predict traffic flow distribution within 5 minutes and dynamically adjusts traffic light durations to optimize green light utilization.

In 2023, China's AI public cloud service market showed strong growth, reaching a scale of 12.61 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 58.2%. Large models play a key role in driving innovation in generative AI applications and the implementation of traditional AI applications. Baidu Intelligent Cloud and Alibaba Cloud rank first in the market, with Tencent Cloud following closely behind, and Huawei Cloud in third place, indicating fierce market competition. The report pays special attention to market services such as computer vision, conversational AI, and intelligent voice, in which Tencent Cloud, Baidu Intelligent Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud dominate. In addition, natural language...

Baidu Intelligent Cloud's Qianfan Platform has recently announced its support for customized fine-tuning services for the flagship large model ERNIE 4.0 Turbo. Enterprise clients can apply for this service through the Baidu Intelligent Cloud official website to meet their specific business needs and data characteristics, thereby training a large model that is more suitable for their business and significantly improving the effectiveness of business applications.

In 2023, the market size for large model platforms and related applications in China reached 1.765 billion RMB, with the market still in an early stage of investment and observation. Baidu Intelligent Cloud ranked first with a market share of 19.9%, followed closely by SenseTime, while ZhiPu AI stood out as a leading startup in third place. Lu Yanxia, IDC's Research Director in China, pointed out that the market will undergo several rounds of dramatic changes in the next 2-3 years, and continuous investment in foundational large model research and enhancing base model capabilities is key for companies to maintain their competitiveness. Emerging fields such as multimodal large models and scientific computing are also on the rise.

Baidu Intelligent Cloud and Shengshu Technology have officially launched the video model Vidu, bringing new possibilities to the creative field. Vidu is the first fully self-researched video model in China, with performance fully comparable to OpenAI's Sora. It is aimed at creative fields such as art design, game production, film and animation, and social entertainment, and is dedicated to stimulating the productivity and creativity of all humanity.

Baidu Intelligent Cloud Qianfan announces the launch of a large model universal plan, allowing users to switch to the country's top large model platform at zero cost. Starting immediately, new registered enterprise users will receive: free access to the Wenxin flagship model for the first time, a 50 million Token package for the ERNIE 3.5 flagship model, and continuous free access to the main models ERNIE Speed, ERNIE Lite, and the lightweight model ERNIE Tiny.

Baidu Intelligent Cloud's total revenue in the fourth quarter reached 8.4 billion yuan, with large models generating approximately 660 million yuan in new revenue. Baidu has launched Qianfan AppBuilder and Qianfan ModelBuilder, the latter has fine-tuned 10,000 models.

Baidu Intelligent Cloud Qianfan Model Platform has been upgraded again, launching the Qianfan SDK, which is fully open source and available for free download and use. This SDK provides a series of functions from dataset management, model training, model evaluation to service deployment, allowing users to integrate it through code.

Wuxi City Operation Center and the Municipal Big Data Group have signed a cooperation agreement with Baidu Intelligent Cloud. The collaboration aims to build a city-level governance large model to promote the digital transformation of governance. Wuxi becomes the first city to develop an intelligent cloud government product system based on a city-level large model. This partnership will enhance the complexity of knowledge Q&A in the government sector, improve search accuracy, and ensure security. The cooperation aims to improve government governance efficiency and promote smart city construction.