Baidu Reports 188 Million App Users and New AI App Features

Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), an internet search company primarily based in China announced that it now has 188 million Baidu App users. The company announced that it is further integrating AI technology into its mobile platform with services including “Image Super Resolution” and “Dynamic Multi-Target Recognition”.

As quoted in the press release:

After years of development, Baidu’s AI technology has been successfully applied across many verticals. Baidu’s core product, Baidu App, is empowered by cutting-edge AI technology that helps it to understand user needs by connecting people and information efficiently and driving app growth. The number of Baidu App daily active users has reached 188 million, making it one of the largest digital media and service platforms in China. At the same time, the entire Baidu mobile ecosystem is growing, and the number of monthly active devices running Baidu mobile apps has reached 1.1 billion.

Shen began his keynote with a presentation of Baidu’s PaddlePaddle mobile deployment library, designed for mobile as a subset of the PaddlePaddle deep learning platform. It optimizes specific scenarios on the mobile terminal and reduces model size to 300KB, achieving ultra-high performance with low power consumption. It currently supports eight kinds of hardware and software platforms, achieving full-platform coverage on mobile terminals. Using the PaddlePaddle mobile deployment library, Baidu App has inspired two technologies: “Image Super Resolution” and “Dynamic Multi-Target Recognition”.

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