On April 13, Baidu announced the purchase of xPercepTIon, a US computer vision startup, to gain a foothold in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). However, Baidu did not disclose the amount of the merger transaction.
Baidu's latest breakthrough in artificial intelligence was on March 30, Baidu “Wanwuyu, Smart Core†DuerOS Smart Chip Strategic Cooperation Conference was successfully held in Shanghai. At the scene, Baidu released the first smart chip equipped with DuerOS conversational artificial intelligence operating system, and announced a strategic cooperation with Ziguang Zhanrui, ARM, Shanghai Hanfeng, cross-border chip and hardware manufacturers, artificial artificial enabling Industry, improve the intelligent Internet of Things ecosystem, and open the era of “talkable†smart devices.
Baidu's artificial intelligence layout has already started in 2014, and has been in the automatic driving and big data platform. Former Baidu Auto Driving Vice President Wang Jin believes that software can define cars, relying on artificial intelligence and big data. AlphaGo has imported all of the human's 160,000 games into the computer. This is just a start. It uses 12,000 servers to play against itself on a daily basis and constantly improve the level of chess. This process is called deep learning. Google hired more than 20 of the world's top scientists to write programs, and AlphaGo spent two years defeating the best players in humans. Similarly, driverless is undergoing such a process.
According to Reuters, xPercepTIon was formed after two engineers from Magic Leap, a US augmented reality (AR) startup, established themselves. The core technology of xPercepTIon is the development of computer vision technology through software and hardware, and the application of this technology in the field of virtual reality (VR) and robotics. Baidu said that after the completion of the merger and acquisition transaction, xPercepTIon will be integrated into Baidu's R&D department, and xPerception technology will be first applied in the field of self-driving and AR.
Baidu is optimistic that after the inclusion of xPerception, Baidu will be able to implement the global artificial intelligence field. Looking ahead, Baidu will continue to make a series of investment layouts in the field of artificial intelligence.
The mainland government's strict online advertising policy has caused Baidu to lose a lot of online advertisers and caused the company's 2016 revenue to decline for the first time. Therefore, Baidu is expected to step into the artificial intelligence field in addition to its core business, in order to create another revenue growth momentum.
Although Baidu intends to actively recruit foreign technical personnel and introduce overseas technology to accumulate its own research and development resources in the field of artificial intelligence. However, because the United States is worried about the target of mainland technology companies, it threatens to threaten the national security of the United States. Therefore, Reuters expects that Baidu’s series of mergers and acquisitions in the United States may be obstructed by the US government.
For example, LeTV announced on the 11th that due to regulatory obstacles, it has abandoned the $2 billion merger of American home appliance manufacturer Vizio.
In addition, Alibaba's Ant Financial is interested in acquiring US money transferer MoneyGram, but halfway through another bidder, Euronet Worldwide. Since both Euronet Worldwide and MoneyGram are US companies, although Ant Financial dismissed the claim that the acquisition of MoneyGram would threaten US national security, according to the Financial Times (FT), the bid price at Euronet Worldwide is higher than Ant Financial, and the former In the case that the regulatory barriers are also lower than those of the ants in the background, the ants will be able to successfully buy MoneyGram.
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