On March 2nd, the inauguration ceremony of the National Engineering Laboratory for Deep Learning Technology and Application was held in Baidu Building today. Baidu Chairman and CEO Li Yanhong attended the unveiling ceremony and delivered a speech, reaffirming his emphasis on artificial intelligence and optimism.
At the beginning of February this year, Tencent Technology disclosed the contents of Li Yanhong’s speech in the New Year. In the internal speech called "Welcome to the New Era" (click to view), Li Yanhong first mentioned the content distribution, and said that "Baidu is essentially the core of the content distribution." The artificial intelligence pushed was mentioned at the end of the speech.
In this regard, some analysts believe that this is Baidu once again changed the strategic center, content distribution has become a new core, and artificial intelligence has been "out of favor."
In today's speech, Li Yanhong clarified this point. He said that such interpretation is a misunderstanding because the core of content distribution is artificial intelligence. In fact, the emphasis on content distribution is also on the search business. Emphasize, "Search is our core, and information flow is an extension of search."
Li Yanhong also said that Baidu has been very serious about artificial intelligence in the past five or six years. In the past two years, the investment in research and development has reached 20 billion, and most of them have invested in artificial intelligence.
The National Engineering Laboratory for Deep Learning Technology and Application, which was established this time, was officially approved by the National Development and Reform Commission. Baidu is the lead builder and will also participate in the National Engineering Laboratory of Big Data System Software as a co-construction unit, and brain-like intelligence. Construction and construction of national engineering laboratories for technology and applications.
The lab, led by Baidu, will focus on seven major directions: deep learning technology, computer vision perception technology, computer audio technology, biometrics technology, new human-computer interaction technology, standardization services, and deep learning intellectual property.
The laboratory will be composed of Lin Yuanqing, director of Baidu Deep Learning Laboratory, Xu Wei, Baidu Deep Learning Laboratory scientist, Academician Zhang Wei of Tsinghua University, and Academician Li Wei of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In addition to the lead party Baidu, the laboratory co-construction units include Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Information and Communication Research Institute, China Electronics Technology Standardization Institute and other units.
Guangzhou Winson Information Technology Co., Ltd. , https://www.barcodescanner-2d.com