Baidu also competes with Google on self-driving cars
Baidu is a company that supplies China's eponymous search engine, and more: also the equivalent of the Chinese-language Wikipedia. While Google is vastly dominant in search engines in the West, Baidu is firmly installed at #75 in China, with around XNUMX% market share.
But research is not the only field in which the two compete. One of the most fascinating projects Google has embarked on is that of 'driverless cars'. Baidu, not to be outdone, is doing the same. Yesterday in Beijing hosted a seminar on the subject, complete with a demonstration: Wuhan University, Beijing Union University, the Beijing Institute of Technology collaborated on the prototype, which toured the Baidu campus (200 meters) , the Military Transportation University and a team of researchers led by Li Deyi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Among the passengers were executives from Baidu's Institute of Deep Learning, which is the equivalent of Google's X Labs.
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