百度计划打造ai生态系统
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) giant Baidu Wednesday unveiled plans to build an open AI ecosystem with program developers and partners.
百度计划打造一个由程序开发人员以及合作伙伴组成的人工智能生态系统。
Baidu will roll out two major open AI platforms DuerOS and Apollo to speed up development in technology and applications for man-machine dialogue and autonomous driving respectively, according to Lu Qi, Baidu vice chairman, group president and chief operating officer, at Baidu Create 2017, a conference for AI developers.
The company will continue to work with companies in different sectors to use its conversational AI operating system DuerOS to make interaction between man and machine easier, according to Jing Kun, general manager of the DuerOS business unit.
Jing also announced Baidu's acquisition of AI start-up KITT, to meet growing demands for smart voice-controlled devices and services.
Baidu also released a timetable to share key technologies with partners for its benchmark open autonomous driving platform Apollo, which has garnered over 50 strategic partners since its launch in April.