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On Tuesday, a multitude of autonomous vehicles managed by the Chinese technology behemoth Baidu became unresponsive in a prominent urban center. This allegedly confined occupants within, marooned them on expressways, and led to a minimum of one mishap amidst congested roadways. Wuhan authorities validated numerous accounts concerning Baidu’s Apollo Go autonomous cabs halting mid-street and their…

Baidu’s smart voice unit to raise independent round on $2.9B valuation – TechCrunch

Baidu, China’s dominant search service and a leader in artificial intelligence research, is further diversifying into the smart voice space as its smart living group is poised to raise an independent round on a 20 billion yuan ($2.94 billion) post-money valuation.

The fundraising move signals a potential spinoff of the smart living group down the road. The unit is best known for its voice…

Baidu’s deep-learning platform fuels the rise of industrial AI

Behind these smart drones are well-trained deep-learning models based on Baidu’s PaddlePaddle, the first open-source deep-learning platform in China. Like mainstream AI frameworks such as Google’s TensorFlow and Facebook’s PyTorch, PaddlePaddle, which was open sourced in 2016, provides software developers of all skill levels with the tools, services, and resources they need to rapidly adopt and…