Employees come out of Baidu's headquarters in Beijing. [Photo by Fan Jiashan/For China Daily]
Baidu Inc, the Chinese technology giant, is resolutely committed to technological innovation to cultivate new high-quality production capacity, and has been ranked No. 1 in the nation for artificial intelligence patent applications and approvals.
According to a report by the China Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team, Baidu had applied for 19,308 AI-related patents and obtained 9,260 patents by the end of last year, ranking among domestic technology companies for six years. It has been at the top continuously. Electronic Intellectual Property Center under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The company led the way with patents for large-scale language models powered by AI. He has applied for 869 patents related to LLM and has been granted 317 patents.
Baidu also secured the world's top spot in patent applications related to deep learning. The Beijing-based tech giant has invested heavily in AI-related research and development. Baidu's core business R&D spending accounted for 21.67% of sales in 2023.
Ernie Bot, a chatbot similar to LLM and ChatGPT, has gained more than 200 million users since its debut in March 2023, and its application programming interface (API) is used 200 million times every day.
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