Most Innovative Companies

Baidu

In 2016, Baidu's CEO Robin Li publicly stated that the company is actively integrating artificial intelligence technologies into all of Baidu's major businesses, including the search engine, as well as new businesses such as autonomous driving. In August, Baidu, Stanford, and the University of Washington released an academic study demonstrating that voice input is more accurate and three times faster than human typing on smartphones. Its Silicon Valley lab is dedicated to finding new uses for AI, and the speech recognition engine it created has been integrated into the company’s mobile search tool, used by hundreds of millions of people in China.

Lists

2017: AI/Machine Learning, China

2015: China

2014: China

2010: China

2009: China

2008: Top 50

Data

staff: 43,500

headquarters: Beijing, China

Competition: Google, Alibaba Group

Baidu On The Web

http://www.baidu.com/

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