At 11:59 on July 5, Robin Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, rode a driverless car through Beijing’s fifth Ring Road. After a total of 15 kilometers, he finally stepped onto the podium in the theme conference hall of the National Convention Center, wearing a white shirt printed with Baidu’s LOGO and smiling.
At this point, Lu Qi, president and CHIEF operating officer of Baidu Group, who had already finished his opening speech and came to the stage for the second time, smiled and asked Robin Li: How do you feel about attending today’s developer conference? “Just a dark one.” Li smiled and said, “Yes, it’s the first time to hold a developer conference.” ‘ ‘
Baidu AI developers Conference attended by 4,500 people. More than 4,000 people are said to be developers. This is baidu’s first developer conference for the world.
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The way Robin Li arrived in a driverless car and appeared with Lu Qi shows the importance of AI at Baidu. At this point, perhaps as Qi lu said in the beginning, Baidu is not an Internet company in a sense, it has become an artificial intelligence company.
Before Li arrived at the conference, Lu qi announced baidu’s plans to open its two major platforms, DuerOS and Apollo, to the industry for free. DuerOS is a conversational AI system that allows toymakers and refrigerator makers to embed DuerOS chips in their products for free, allowing them to talk to people. Apollo is an autonomous driving technology system that automakers can use to build their own self-driving cars.
With the opening of the two platforms, The rudiment of Baidu’s new ecological circle has been shown. At the end of last year, Li said, “Baidu’s previous ecosystem is gone, and we need to evolve into a new ecosystem…
Two open platforms
At 10 am on July 5, Baidu’s AI developer conference began. There was no host. Wearing a T-shirt and jeans, Lu Qi was the first to take the stage. After joining Baidu for half a year, Lu qi has become quite familiar with baidu’s businesses and future plans. “Baidu is no longer an Internet company, but an ARTIFICIAL intelligence enterprise,” he stressed. Then Lu qi announced that Baidu’s six-year achievements in ai — DuerOS and Apollo — would be free to the industry. Qi lu, Apollo1.0 open platform for the complete technical architecture including software platform, the cloud service platform, reference hardware platform, the four most reference vehicle platforms, comprehensive build to actually run through four layers structure autopilot system, and will be open through code, open ability and open data three forms gradually enable developers and partners. In other words, with baidu Apollo’s current capabilities, developers can build their own self-driving cars. The assembly of the driverless car, Li’s vehicle for the meeting, took only three days.
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Lu Qi announced Apollo open road map can be seen, Baidu will gradually open up autonomous driving capabilities. Baidu plans to open its closed site tracking autonomous driving capability and Apollo data open platform in July to achieve autonomous driving across the entire highway and urban road network by 2020.
It is understood that Apollo platform open plan, in April this year, baidu only announced the concept of this plan to the outside world.
According to Li, The Apollo plan is to open source and open to all auto makers the self-driving technology Baidu has accumulated over the past three years.