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Future of Business: Baidu’s Robin Li on the Technology Trends that Will Transform Business

2024/11/14
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领导百度从搜索引擎发展到全栈AI公司的中国亿万富翁互联网企业家。
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Robin Li 介绍了百度在人工智能领域的持续投入和创新。百度率先推出了类似 ChatGPT 的产品 ERNIE Bot，并在过去一年半中不断改进其效率、速度和成本。目前，ERNIE Bot 的推理成本已降至最初的 1%，响应速度也得到显著提升。最重要的是，大型语言模型的准确性得到大幅提高，使得用户可以信任聊天机器人的答案。百度采用商业级闭源模型，并通过 API 调用服务为各种应用和客户提供支持，致力于将人工智能技术应用于搜索、直播带货等多个领域，以提高效率、降低成本并创造更多价值。

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Robin Li discusses the evolution of Baidu's AI chatbot, ERNIE Bot, since its launch, focusing on improvements in response speed, cost reduction, and accuracy of answers.
  • Baidu launched the first ChatGPT-like chatbot among public companies.
  • The inference cost has been reduced by 99%, making it 1% of the original cost.
  • Accuracy of answers from large language models has significantly improved.

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Baidu launched in 2000 as a search engine platform. Two decades later, it’s become one of the few companies in the world that offers a full AI stack. Its core businesses span mobile, cloud, intelligent driving and other growth initiatives, and its products and services have attracted hundreds of millions of users and hundreds of thousands of enterprise customers. Leading all of that is co-founder, CEO, and chairman Robin Li. He explains how Baidu has built generative AI into its business – including their AI chatbot, ERNIE Bot. Robin also shares the technology trends he’s keeping an eye on – from AI bubbles to robotaxis – and how he anticipates these fast-moving changes will transform our world.