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BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Baidu on Thursday posted a 3% annual drop in third-quarter revenue, nevertheless beating market expectations amid AI cloud growth. Baidu noted a 12% surge in its non-online marketing revenue to the equivalent of $1.1 billion, mainly driven by its artificial intelligence cloud business. Beijing-based Baidu operates one of the major web browser search engines in China, along with a frequently used maps app. Baidu has promoted its Ernie chatbot as a local alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT, which isn't available in China. "AI Cloud continued to show healthy and sustainable development in the third quarter," he said in the earnings release.
Persons: Robin Li, Ernie, Baidu, Ernie chatbot, Li, Baidu hasn't, Rong Luo, Apollo Organizations: Baidu, CNBC Locations: BEIJING, U.S, Beijing, China
TM Roh, head of Samsung's mobile business, talks about Galaxy AI at the Galaxy Unpacked event in Paris, France. On Wednesday, Samsung launched two new foldable smartphones with new AI features as it continues to build up capabilities. PARIS — Samsung is developing its suite of artificial intelligence features known as Galaxy AI specifically for the Chinese market, the company's mobile chief told CNBC, as it looks to regain market share that has been decimated by local players. But China, the world's biggest smartphone market, has been a struggle for Samsung over the last few years. Foreign firms looking to launch AI features in China likely need to partner with local companies.
Persons: Roh, Roh didn't, Ernie chatbot, Francisco Jeronimo, Jeronimo Organizations: Galaxy, Samsung, CNBC, Huawei, Baidu, Samsung's, Apple, Apple Intelligence, IDC, Xiaomi Locations: Paris, France, PARIS, China, Europe, East, Africa
Baidu has launched a slew of AI applications after its Ernie chatbot received public approval. China's Baidu said fourth-quarter revenue rose 6%, helped by gains from its artificial intelligence applications and a growing advertising business. For the three months through December, the company reported revenue of 34.95 billion yuan ($4.92 billion), broadly in line with analysts' average estimate of 34.97 billion yuan, according to LSEG data. The company's adjusted net income rose by 44% to 7.76 billion yuan, compared with 5.37 billion yuan for the same period a year earlier, beating analysts' forecasts for 6.32 billion yuan. The company said ERNIE AI services have already started to contribute to Baidu's revenues.
Persons: Ernie chatbot, Baidu, ERNIE Bot, ERNIE, Robin Li Organizations: Baidu
The investment analyst team led by Gary Yu has a $140 price target and overweight rating on Baidu's U.S.-listed shares. "We believe the current AI cloud integration between Galaxy AI and Ernie is just the first step," Yu said. For all the interest in AI stocks, China markets this year are still grappling with worries about whether Beijing is doing enough to support economic growth. They have a price target of 160 yuan on Shanghai-listed shares of Cambricon — upside of 12% from Friday's levels. They have a price target of 380 yuan on Shanghai-listed Kingsoft, up more than 50% from Friday's levels.
Persons: Morgan Stanley, Gary Yu, Yu, Ernie chatbot, Ernie, Fawne Jiang, Jiang, Baidu, Alex Yao, Yao, Geoffrey Hinton, Cade Metz, Hinton, Metz, it's, Sinodata, Microsoft didn't, EPFR, Bernstein, monetization Organizations: Bloomberg, Baidu, U.S, Huawei, Galaxy, Benchmark, JPMorgan China, Mavericks, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Shanghai, China Equity Funds, Nvidia Locations: China, U.S, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai
Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy S24 smartphones during a media preview event in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. Samsung, the world's most prolific smartphone maker, is leaning into artificial intelligence as the key to unlocking greater sales this year. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBaidu AI Cloud will be integrating its Ernie chatbot into Samsung's Galaxy S24 smartphones, allowing users to translate calls in real time, among other features. Ernie is the Chinese tech giant's answer to OpenAI's ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence technology that's able to generate humanlike responses to users' prompts. Baidu claims it is the "most powerful version of Ernie foundation model to date," with the full capabilities of understanding, generation, reasoning, and memory.
Persons: SeongJoon Cho, Ernie chatbot, Ernie, OpenAI's, Apple Organizations: Samsung Electronics Co, Samsung, Bloomberg, Getty, Baidu, Samsung's, Apple, IDC, Vivo, Huawei Locations: Seoul, South Korea, China
Baidu has launched a slew of AI applications after its Ernie chatbot received public approval. BEIJING – Chinese tech giant Baidu announced more than 10 new AI-based applications on Tuesday, just days after its ChatGPT-like Ernie bot was released for public use. The company built the tool using the AI model on which Baidu's Ernie bot is based, as well as Baidu's "Qianfan" cloud platform for AI models, according to a release. Nearly 10,000 businesses are actively using Baidu's Qianfan cloud platform each month, the company claimed. Baidu also announced that more than 6 million users have used an AI-powered tool that sits inside its Google drive-like cloud product.
Persons: Ernie chatbot, Ernie Organizations: Baidu Locations: BEIJING, Shanghai
Where to play it Where HSBC analysts are looking is in Chinese AI hardware stocks. Its customers also include Nvidia and U.S. and Chinese cloud companies. Based on in-person company visits — which revealed about a third had "lousy management" and not investable — he's decided to focus on Chinese AI and green energy companies. His watchlist of about 90 Chinese AI companies has more than doubled in value this year, Ogan said, noting his firm only owns a handful. However, publicly disclosed figures show the AI company only made net revenue of $48.2 million in 2022, with a net loss of $6 million.
Persons: They're, Tencent, Ernie chatbot, Frank He, Innolight, FII, Taylor Ogan, — he's, Ogan, Yuan Hui, Xiao, That's, Yuan, , China's, Hua Zang, chatbot Organizations: Baidu, HSBC, HSBC Qianhai, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Biden, Snow Bull, Nasdaq, IDG Locations: China, Suzhou, Friday's, U.S, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing
Hong Kong CNN —Shares in Chinese search giant Baidu rebounded sharply a day after it unveiled ERNIE Bot, its answer to the ChatGPT craze. Its Hong Kong shares fell 6.4% after a public demonstration of its bot failed to impress investors. The reversal came after the company said more than 30,000 businesses had signed up to test out its chatbot service within two hours of its demonstration. Baidu Chairman and CEO Robin Li presenting the company's AI chatbot, ERNIE Bot, in Beijing on March 16. But its stock slumped on Thursday because the demo was “pre-recorded, and not live, which makes investors skeptical about the robustness of the ERNIE Bot,” according to Pau.
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