Baidu

Baidu has initiated its 2026 campus recruitment, offering over 4,000 positions spanning 256 specialized roles across seven Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Dalian, and Hangzhou. Over 90% of openings are AI-related, including 90 newly created roles in multimodal systems, cross-modal algorithms, and large-scale model architecture. The recruitment features a dual-batch system: early applicants bypass written exams for accelerated interviews, while unselected candidates may reapply during the regular admission cycle. (79 words)

Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) briefly surpassed Baidu in market capitalization, highlighting a market re-evaluation. Investors favor TME’s proven “copyright-to-subscribers-to-revenue” model over Baidu’s AI investments, which await clearer commercial returns. This shift signals changing internet traffic dynamics and investment logic, with TME evolving into a dedicated content provider.

Baidu founder Robin Li announced a leadership shake-up, appointing He Haijian as the new CFO and Jackson He to head HR and Administration. Cui Shanshan will focus on her role as Secretary-General of the Culture Committee. He Haijian brings extensive financial experience from Kingsoft Cloud and major financial institutions.

Baidu has open-sourced its ERNIE 4.5 AI models, featuring multi-modal Mixture-of-Experts with enhanced orthogonality. Modong Space, China’s national computing platform, is the first to integrate these advanced models. ERNIE 4.5 optimizes training and inference for improved text generation, image comprehension, and multi-modal reasoning, catering to diverse real-world applications.

Baidu has released its ERNIE 4.5 open-source large language model series, featuring ten models including Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) variants. These models offer fully open-sourced pre-training weights and inference code, accessible via platforms like Hugging Face. The series boasts innovative heterogeneous MoE architecture for multimodal capabilities and achieves state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks, outperforming competitors in text and multimodal tasks. The models are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, promoting both academic and commercial use.

Baidu announced significant advancements at the 2025 Smart Economy Forum. Baidu Smart Cloud partnered with 65% of China’s central SOEs to boost the LLM industry. They launched the Qianfan Huijin Financial LLM and introduced industry-specific intelligent agents. Baidu also deployed “Ten Thousand Card” and “Thirty Thousand Card” clusters on the Baige GPU platform, designed for efficient LLM training and inference and compatible with various models.

IDC’s 2025 report ranked Baidu’s Ernie LLM as the leading model in China, achieving top scores in seven out of eight evaluation dimensions. Competing against LLMs from OpenAI, Alibaba, and others, Ernie outperformed in areas like functionality, usability, and ecosystem integration. The report highlighted Ernie’s advanced capabilities, including multi-turn dialogue, image understanding, and translation. Baidu’s strategic positioning across the tech stack and its PaddlePaddle platform contribute to Ernie’s comprehensive product matrix and strong ecosystem, positioning it to drive AI-driven solutions across multiple industries.

Baidu is suing Xiaomi and Shanghai Yiyi Information Technology for unfair competition. The case, scheduled for June 13th in Shanghai, highlights the intensifying competition within China’s tech industry. Baidu, the core entity of Baidu Group, and Xiaomi, a major consumer tech innovator, haven’t issued public comments on the matter.