Baidu's official account recently announced that the 2024 Baidu World Congress will be held on November 12 in Shanghai. This congress is Baidu's most important annual technology and product launch event, having been held continuously since 2006 for 18 years. Last year, Baidu's founder, Li Yanhong, introduced the Wenxin Large Model 4.0 at the congress, showcasing Baidu's new AI applications including search, maps, document library, and cloud storage under the theme 'Hands-On Guide to Creating AI Native Applications'. The Wenxin Large Model leads in usage domestically, with daily invocation exceeding 700 million times, compared to last year.

Baidu AI has recently launched a new feature that allows users to directly import files from Baidu Wangpan into the Wenxin Yiyan platform. This update greatly simplifies the process of uploading and managing files for users, enabling quicker access and processing of various documents stored in the cloud.

Logitech held a product launch event in Beijing titled 'AI-Driven, Co-Creating Sustainable Development', unveiling its first AI-customized wireless mechanical keyboard designed for Chinese users - the Logitech Amber Series K98M. This keyboard integrates Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan AI platform, allowing users to access AI services with a single click through the Logi Options+ software, offering features such as content creation, image generation, academic paper assistance, and data processing.

IDC has released a report that thoroughly analyzes the domestic market for mobile generative AI large models, with a focus on evaluating the competitiveness of eight popular mobile chatbot applications, including Baidu Wenxin Yiyan. The evaluation is based on four dimensions: market influence, user activity, user engagement, and user experience. The results show that Baidu Wenxin Yiyan excels in multiple aspects, becoming a market leader. Kunlun Wanwei's Tiangong is recognized by users for its rich features and good integration with search engines, but it needs to improve user activity. ByteDance's Doubao is notable for its market influence and user activity.

Baidu Wenxin Yiyan is offering users a free 'Member Experience Card', allowing them to experience its latest large model 4.0 Turbo for up to 7 times. The offer is limited by time and instances, applicable to users who have received other experience cards. This model significantly enhances speed and effectiveness through technological innovation, integrating data, foundational models, alignment technology, and is jointly optimized with PaddlePaddle Wenxin, showcasing potential close to general artificial intelligence.

Baidu plans to offer free access to its long text capabilities, with a character range between 2 million and 5 million. After the upgrade, Baidu Wenxin Yiyan will provide broader text processing capabilities. This initiative will be officially implemented next month and is of great significance to users. The opening of Baidu's long text capabilities will greatly enhance users' text processing efficiency and convenience.

The user base of Wenxin Yiyan has surpassed 100 million since it opened public services on August 31. The volume of user inquiries continues to rise, and the massive data from user questions continuously optimizes the intelligence level of Wenxin Yiyan. The number of developers on the PaddlePaddle platform has reached 10.7 million.

The Baidu Wenxin Yiyan Plugin Marketplace has officially launched, supporting practical scenarios such as office efficiency improvement, multimodal content understanding and generation, and professional information retrieval. The plugins include features such as project management dashboards, mind mapping tools, PPT generators, and AI video assistants. Users can easily generate PPTs, extract audio and video, and create mind maps with simple commands. The plugin marketplace also supports users in designing new plugin applications. The Baidu Wenxin Yiyan Plugin Marketplace provides users with more practical plugin options.

Baidu's Q3 2023 revenue reached 34.447 billion yuan, a year-over-year increase of 23%, with a net profit attributable to shareholders of 7.3 billion yuan. The core advertising business continues to be Baidu's largest growth driver, maintaining a positive growth trend in advertising revenue. The active user base of the Baidu APP reached 663 million, a 5% year-over-year increase, with the advantages of the advertising business expected to further expand in the generative search era. The achievements of Baidu's large model platform, Wenxin Yiyan 4.0, are significant, boasting 70 million users and covering 4,300 scenarios, as enterprises explore innovative paths with large models. Baidu leverages large models and cloud technology.

Baidu Chairman and CEO Li Yanhong stated that Baidu Wenxin Yiyan is one of the first large language models to implement charging. Li Yanhong introduced the excellent performance of Baidu Wenxin Yiyan 4.0 and its warm welcome from users. Starting from November 1st, Baidu will charge enterprises and consumers for using the Wenxin Yiyan service. Baidu has achieved significant results in driving advertising business growth through generative artificial intelligence technology. Baidu will continue to leverage generative AI and large language model technology to achieve sustainable revenue growth.

Baidu released its Q3 financial report, showing revenue of 34.447 billion yuan and a net profit of 7.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23%. Baidu's core revenue reached 26.6 billion yuan, with a net profit of 7 billion yuan, increasing by 21% year-on-year. The user count for Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan reached 70 million, covering 4,300 scenarios. Baidu Cloud's 'Yun Yiduo' has 20 million users, and the new AI features of Baidu Wenku have accumulated over 30 million users.

Baidu CEO Robin Li stated at the Xili Lake Forum in Shenzhen that the invocation of Baidu's Wenxin model has exceeded the total of over 200 other large models. Baidu has undergone an AI-native restructuring of its product line, with 20 out of every 100 lines of code completed by AI. Robin Li emphasized the importance of large models as a foundational base to avoid redundant development and waste of basic resources. Wenxin Yiyan has already attracted 8 million developers, who can invoke Wenxin Yiyan through plugins.

The user base of Baidu Wenxin Yiyan has reached 70 million. The number of scenarios for Baidu Wenxin Yiyan has reached 4,300. Artificial intelligence serves as a significant driving force in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. Deep learning is the core technology of artificial intelligence. Baidu's Wenxin Model 4.0 possesses multiple capabilities including understanding, generation, logic, and memory.

Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan has launched a membership service, offering early access to Wenxin large model 4.0. Members can enjoy the privilege of 100 Q&A sessions every 3 hours, along with high-level plugins and 600 inspiration points granted by the app. Baidu has also introduced the Wenxin Yige Silver Membership, priced at 99 yuan/month. The membership services bring comprehensive upgrades to the model's capabilities.

Xiaodu Technology has launched the 'Xiaodu Tiantian Home Robot' based on Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan large model, priced at 4599 RMB, expected to be released in spring 2024. It features functions such as super companionship, caring housekeeper, and super assistant, showcasing high levels of human-like and intelligent characteristics, capable of chatting with users and controlling home appliances.

Baidu's Wenxin series of large models empowers various AI native applications, heralding the era of AI accessibility. Wenxin Yiyan accelerates digital transformation in industries, helping enterprises seize AI opportunities. Baidu has launched multiple initiatives based on Wenxin Yiyan to support developers in creating AI native applications. Baidu is the first to fully integrate large models in internal applications to enhance user experience. Li Yanhong has stated that the application of large models is the greatest business opportunity and calls for industry collaboration to achieve win-win outcomes.

Baidu has announced that the Baidu World Conference 2023 will be held on October 17, showcasing new AI-native applications and the upgraded Wenxin Yiyan, along with a fresh look for products like search, maps, and cloud storage. CEO Robin Li will share insights on the restructuring of AI with a focus on native integration and introduce the core foundational capabilities of AI. Wenxin Yiyan will be upgraded to play a more significant role, making Baidu Search a truly万能助手. The Baidu World Conference 2023 will be a grand event that brings together AI technology and applications.

After the full opening of Wenxin Yiyan, the user count of Baidu Pan's intelligent assistant "Yun Yiduo" has exceeded 6 million. "Yun Yiduo" can help users quickly find files, summarize key knowledge points, translate documents, and more through voice conversations. "Yun Yiduo" can add subtitles to videos, extract key points, and provide background knowledge in Q&A. The opening of Wenxin Yiyan allows more people to experience the convenience of intelligent assistants, and the large model-based intelligent assistant service has broad application prospects.

Baidu has officially announced that Wenxin Yiyan is now open to the public. Users can download the 'Wenxin Yiyan App' from app stores or visit the 'Wenxin Yiyan official website' to experience it. Baidu will also launch a series of newly restructured AI native applications, allowing users to fully experience the four core capabilities of generative AI: understanding, generation, logic, and memory. Wenxin Yiyan is a generative AI product launched by Baidu based on the Wenxin large model technology, which has performed excellently in authoritative evaluations both domestically and internationally.

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