Baidu Pricing & Demo

Baidu is one of the leading companies to offer AI solutions in the global market. Baidu has its presence in America, Europe, and APAC region, with a major focus on China. The company offers its products and solutions through direct and indirect channels, with the third-party vendors, including distributors, a global network of alliance partners, system integrators, and value-added resellers. Baidu focuses on both organic and inorganic growth strategies, as a part of its core development strategy in the machine learning software market. In line with its organic growth strategy, in September 2016, Baidu announced its plan to offer "PaddlePaddle," platform as an open source AI software platform for enterprises. Previously, the platform was used internally by the company as an integral piece in search ranking, advertising, image classification, translation, and driverless cars. The company has also started Baidu Research, which handles R&D for it in the field of machine learning and AI. It introduces innovative products in the market on a regular basis, and in 2016, the company invested 14.4% of its annual revenue in R&D. In accordance with the inorganic growth strategy, in July 2017, Baidu acquired Kitti.ai, which has developed a framework to build and power chatbots and voice-based applications across multiple platforms and devices. In April 2017, the company also acquired XPerception, a US company that develops visual perception software and hardware to produce driverless cars.