At the 2024 World Baidu Conference, Baidu founder Li Yanhong presented a series of eye-catching advancements in the field of AI. He pointed out that the most significant breakthrough in large model technology over the past two years has been the basic resolution of the 'illusion' problem, marking a qualitative leap in the accuracy of AI responses, transforming it from 'seriously spouting nonsense' to a reliable intelligent assistant. At the conference, Li Yanhong emphasized Baidu's latest retrieval-augmented generation technology, iRAG, which innovatively integrates the vast image resources accumulated by Baidu's search platform and advanced techniques.

On November 12, 2024, the Baidu World Conference grandly opened at the Shanghai World Expo Center. The conference included a main forum, four sub-forums, and over thirty sessions of public courses on artificial intelligence. Baidu's founder, Robin Li, delivered a speech titled 'Applications Have Arrived' at the main forum, introducing Baidu's latest technological breakthroughs and application achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, while also providing an in-depth discussion on future industry trends.