Baidu's Apollo Go and K2's AutoGo Commence Fully Autonomous Ride-Hailing Service on Yas Island, Announce Phased Expansion Across Abu Dhabi
* Having secured the fully driverless commercial permit in mid-November 2025, the partners have launched fully autonomous ride-hailing service via the AutoGo app. * Initial operations cover Yas Island, with phased expansion planned for Reem, Al Maryah, and Saadiyat Islands. * The launch mar...
Baidu's Apollo Go Secures Dubai's First Fully Driverless Testing Permit, Launches Local Operations Hub
* Apollo Go receives Dubai's very first driverless testing permit for fully autonomous vehicles without a safety driver, paving the way for a fully autonomous commercial ride-hailing service in the emirate as early as the first quarter of 2026. * New Apollo Go Park in Dubai becomes Apollo Go'...
Baidu Announces Proposed Spin-off and Separate Listing of Kunlunxin
BEIJING, Jan. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)), ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, today announced its proposed spinoff and separate listing of the H shares of Kunlunxin (Beijing)...
Baidu Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results
BEIJING, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)), ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, today announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter endedSeptember 30, 2025. ...
Baidu Unveils ERNIE 5.0 and a Series of AI Applications at Baidu World 2025, Ramps Up Global Push
* ERNIE 5.0 is the latest foundation model of the company. As a natively omni-modal model, ERNIE 5.0 jointly models text, images, audio, and videos. * Baidu announced upgrades to its digital human technology, no-code application builder Miaoda, and general AI agent GenFlow, while unveling the ...
Baidu's Apollo Go and K2's AutoGo Announce Fleet Expansion Plan in Abu Dhabi, Winning One of the Emirate's Inaugural Fully Driverless Commercial Permits
* Apollo Go and AutoGo signed a next-phase agreement to scale their fleet to hundreds of vehicles by 2026, advancing the goal of buildingAbu Dhabi's largest fully driverless fleet. * The partners won one of the inaugural permits to operate fully driverless commercial robotaxi service for the ...
Baidu to Host Baidu World, the Annual Flagship Technology Conference, on Nov 13, 2025
BEIJING, Oct. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU; HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)) ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, announced that it will host its annual flagship technology conference, Baidu World 2025, onNovember...
Baidu to Report Third Quarter 2025 Financial Results on Nov 18, 2025
BEIJING, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU; HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)) ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, today announced that it will report its financial results for the Third Quarter 2025 endedSeptember...
Baidu's Apollo Go Granted Dubai's First Batch of Autonomous Driving Test Licenses, Conducts On-Road Trials in Urban Dubai
* Apollo Go has been granted Dubai's very first autonomous driving trial permit, along with the first batch of 50 autonomous driving test licenses. * With this first batch of licenses, Apollo Go's 50-vehicle fleet has been conducting open-road testing in designated areas inDubai since August. ...
Baidu Announces Completion of CNY4.4 Billion Offering of CNY-denominated Senior Notes
BEIJING, Sept. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)), ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, today announced the completion of its offering ofCNY4.4 billion aggregate principal amount of ...
Baidu Unveils Reasoning Model ERNIE X1.1 with Upgrades in Key Capabilities
* ERNIE X1.1 shows major advancements in factuality, instruction following, and agentic capabilities; it surpasses DeepSeek R1-0528 in overall performance while performing on par with top-tier models like GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. * The PaddlePaddle-ERNIE ecosystem now serves 23.33 million dev...
Baidu Announces Proposed Offering of CNY-denominated Senior Notes
BEIJING, Sept. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)), ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, today announced that it proposes to offer CNY-denominated senior unsecured notes (the "Notes") ...
Baidu Announces Second Quarter 2025 Results
BEIJING, Aug. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)), ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, today announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter endedJune 30, 2025. "In...
Lyft Partners with Baidu to Deploy Autonomous Rides Across Europe
Lyft plans to deploy Baidu Apollo Go's RT6 autonomous vehicles initially in Germany and the United Kingdom starting in 2026 BEIJING and SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888), a leading AI company with a strong Internet foundation, and Lyft, Inc. (N...
Baidu to Report Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results on Aug 20, 2025
BEIJING, July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU; HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)) ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, today announced that it will report its financial results for the Second Quarter 2025 endedJune 30,...
Baidu and Uber Join Forces to Accelerate Autonomous Vehicle Deployment
BEIJING and SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888) and Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) today announced a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy thousands of Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the Uber platform across multiple gl...
Baidu Announces Management Changes
BEIJING, July 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)) ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with a strong Internet foundation, today announced the appointment of Mr. Haijian He as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, ef...
Baidu Announces First Quarter 2025 Results
BEIJING, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)) ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with a strong Internet foundation, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter endedMarch 31, 2025. "Ba...
Baidu to Hold Annual General Meeting on June 27, 2025
BEIJING, May 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. ("Baidu" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: BIDU; HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, today announced that it will hold its annual general meeting of shareholders (the "AGM") at Baidu Cam...
Baidu Launches ERNIE 4.5 Turbo, ERNIE X1 Turbo and New Suite of AI Tools to Empower Developers and Supercharge AI Innovation
* Following the release of two models in mid-March, Baidu unveiled ERNIE 4.5 Turbo and ERNIE X1 Turbo today, which stand out for their multimodal capabilities, strong reasoning, and low costs. ERNIE 4.5 Turbo delivers faster responses while priced at 20% of ERNIE 4.5; ERNIE X1 Turbo, featuring ...
