2025, the first day of the New Year, Robin Li issued a letter!

In the letter, he affirmed Baidu's achievements in the field of AI in 2024, focusing on the release and improvement of products such as Radish Fast Run, Miaoda, and Baidu Library.

And firmly believe that AI will still be the keyword of Baidu in the New Year!

Among them, there is a clear judgment that the blowout of AI native applications is coming!

"While super applications have yet to emerge, the actual penetration of AI is already not low and will continue to grow in a blowout through 2025. We also expect that the seeds we planted in 2023 and 2024 will take root and bear fruit in 2025, and continue to be validated and recognized by the market."

About this long letter of all staff, we have done some dismantling, hoping to give you a focus, see what Director Li has said?

1. Baidu's 25 years: Always at the forefront of technology

In the letter, Li Yanhong first recalled Baidu's entrepreneurial journey, "25 years ago today, seven young people with the dream of changing the world through technology began a journey of entrepreneurship in two small rooms of the Beifang Resources Hotel in Zhongguancun."

"Today, more than half of Chinese people use Baidu every month to get information, and the previously meaningless Chinese character 'Baidu' has become a household name."

Then, the full letter looked back on Baidu's 25 years.

"In the past 25 years, we have not forgotten the original heart, wind and rain, has experienced the PC Internet era, mobile Internet era, and now has basically entered the era of artificial intelligence."

"We started from a simple web search function, gradually developed a post bar, know, encyclopedia, map, library, web disk and other star products, we rely on a strong user base, lasted more than 10 years, and gradually created the era of artificial intelligence from the chip, framework to model, application and other four layers of full stack technology, It has trained a batch of scientific and technical personnel, developers and entrepreneurs for China's Internet and the world's AI field."

Robin Li concluded: "Over the past 25 years, we have always been at the forefront of technology, always believe that technological innovation is the core competitiveness of Baidu, and we have been investing more than 20% of our revenue in research and development.

He mentioned that the subsequent breakthroughs in deep farming technology were validated in the field of AI. "Without the Wanka cluster, there would not be the emergence of large model intelligence, there would not be this wave of generative AI; Without hundreds of millions of operating kilometres, driverless cars cannot be ten times safer than manned ones; Without the promotion of a large number of AI native applications, domestic AI chips cannot be truly mature!"

2. Being at the forefront of technology also means greater risk

Today's Baidu, a conservative criticism of the place is "got up very early to catch up with the late set."

In this letter, Robin Li seems to respond, he said, "Walking at the forefront of technology also means that we have to take greater risks, to bear the probability of failure higher than that of peers, to endure loneliness, to endure others' incomprehension and even white eyes, to keep trying and making mistakes, to know which day the direction is wrong and need to quickly adjust the direction and start again." It is even necessary to have a clear understanding of the boundaries of their own capabilities, and constantly sum up lessons learned in order to facilitate the next battle!"

Challenges and opportunities can be a roller coaster ride, he lamented. "Some jobs don't know until the last day."

However, there are still many exciting results in 2024, "This year we firmly explore innovation in AI technology, we are the world's first image-based retrieval enhancement technology iRAG, greatly reducing the illusion problem of image generation; We are committed to letting ordinary people who can't write programs have the ability of programmers, for this purpose, we released the second da, which is in stark contrast to the global mainstream code-assisted generation; We are also unique in the application of large models, providing unmatched content creation and ideas for the 40 million paying users of the library!"

3. Look ahead to 2025: The year of the explosion of AI native applications

When AI rolls to the white heat, Robin Li also said, "Competition is more intense than ever, the speed of technology iteration is faster than ever, and the challenges we face are unprecedented."

However, AI is still a train full of opportunities: "Large model-enabled AI native applications are rapidly spreading across a variety of industries and scenarios, and while super applications have not yet emerged, the actual penetration of AI is already not low and will continue to grow in 2025." We also expect that the seeds we planted in 2023 and 2024 will take root and bear fruit in 2025, and continue to be validated and recognized by the market."

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