Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) shares began Thursday sharply lower. The Beijing-based firm, a leading AI company with a strong internet foundation, today unveiled the natively omni-modal foundation model, ERNIE 5.0, at its annual flagship event, Baidu World 2025. ERNIE 5.0 jointly models text, images, audio, and videos for comprehensive multimodal understanding and generation. The company also introduced a suite of AI products and services and announced plans to roll out select products to global markets.
At the event, Baidu introduced upgrades for a suite of AI products, including its next-generation real-time digital human, an enhanced 2.0 version of its no-code application builder Miaoda, a revamped Baidu Search experience powered by more intelligent capabilities, and the general AI agent GenFlow 3.0. It also unveiled Famou, a self-evolving AI agent, and announced plans to roll out products such as the digital human technology, no-code application builder MeDo, one-stop AI workspace Oreate to global markets.
To quote CEO Robin Li, "When you internalize AI, it becomes a native capability and transforms intelligence from a cost into a source of productivity.
"We should focus on integrating AI with every task we do to make it a native driving force for corporate and personal growth."
BIDU shares were lower $6.82, or 5.3%, midday Thursday to $122.12.
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