Baidu announced the establishment of a smart car company, with Geely as a strategic partner

2021On January 11 of this year, Baidu, as the world's leading artificial intelligence platform company, announced the formal establishment of a smart car company to enter the automotive industry as a vehicle manufacturer. Geely Holding Group will be the new company's strategic partner.

The newly formed Baidu Automobile Company will target the passenger car market and allow users to purchase more extreme smart electric vehicles. Baidu Auto will focus on the entire smart car design, development, manufacturing, sales and service industry chain, inherit Baidu's strong artificial intelligence and Internet technology genes, use Apollo's leading autonomous driving capabilities to give full play to its 8-year experience in the field of automobile intelligence, reshape smart car product forms, and become a game-changer in the era of intelligent mobility.

Baidu Automobile Company is independent of the parent company system and maintains independent operations; at the same time, Baidu fully empowers the automobile company with core technologies such as artificial intelligence, Apollo autonomous driving, Xiaodu Vehicle, and Baidu Maps to support its rapid growth.

Baidu Automobile Company chose Geely, a leading Chinese automobile company, as a partner, and Geely Holding Group invested as a strategic partner for the new company. In the next step, the two sides will cooperate closely in fields related to smart car manufacturing based on Geely's newly developed world-leading pure electric architecture - the vast SEA intelligent evolutionary experience architecture - to jointly build the next generation of smart cars.

Baidu Heavy Equipment's establishment of an automobile company is not only the best practice of artificial intelligence technology, but also an important strategic layout in the field of intelligent mobility. Baidu will also continue to adhere to the spirit of open cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence technology and work hand in hand with ecological partners to help the world in the new round of global intelligent mobility transformation!

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