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Baidu Cloud Announces Hybrid Cloud Platform To Accelerate Enterprise Deployment of AIBEIJING, Sept. 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Baidu Cloud, the cloud arm of Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU), announced today it has released the ABC – STACK, a hybrid cloud platform, that provides enterprise customers with powerful and flexible solutions to effectively integrate and deploy AI into their businesses. These solutions range from ready-to-use software to customized AI model development and training. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at //www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/9ace974d-5b96-4535-a882-691380b16c72 Since its inception, Baidu Cloud has adopted an integrated approach that combines capabilities and resources in AI, Big Data and Cloud Computing, providing customers with not only storage and computing but also complete solutions and services that are ready to deploy. Baidu Cloud’s unique offerings have received ecognition from many industries. In only one year since its launch, Baidu Cloud’s customer base has increased 10 times year-over-year, traffic increased eight times and revenue increased four times. The ABC – STACK encompasses three areas of cloud computing: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS):
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“The ABC – STACK is the embodiment of Baidu’s ABC strategy integrating our AI, Big Data and Cloud Computing capabilities,” said Ya-Qin Zhang, president of Baidu. “Cloud computing has entered the 2.0 era, and we are providing enterprises with competitive capabilities to leverage big data and AI analytics.” “In addition to helping customers reduce cost and boost efficiency, which you can achieve with traditional cloud offerings, the ABC intelligent cloud makes a more profound impact by creating new business models,” said Zhang. Some of Baidu Cloud’s early partners have already demonstrated how ABC – STACK has the potential to transform their businesses. Shougang Automation and Information Company Ltd, a subsidiary of steel giant Shougang Group, used an ABC – STACK enabled AI solution to automatically review and identify inferior steel products with a 99.98 percent accuracy. “The accuracy rate of the detection solution for our steel products greatly exceeded our expectations. It strengthens our determination to deepen the partnership with Baidu Cloud to unlock the full potential of AI for our manufacturing operations,” said She Guoping, general manager of Shougang Automation and Information Company Ltd. In collaboration with Shanghai Electric, a power generation and electrical equipment manufacturing company in China, Baidu Cloud also developed a failure prediction model for its wind turbines with more than 85 percent accuracy. Wasu Group, one of China’s biggest media companies with 30 million cable TV subscribers, developed voice enabled TV set top boxes and a video content recommendation system using Baidu Cloud based capabilities. Baidu also announced a partnership with UnionPay, the largest card payment organization in the world based on payment transactions, schemes and number of cards issued, to jointly build China’s first financial service centric cloud platform in the city of Wuhan, China, supporting leading edge AI enabled business models such as using facial recognition at point of purchase. About Baidu Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search provider. Baidu aims to make a complex world simpler through technology. Baidu's ADSs trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "BIDU". Currently, ten ADSs represent one Class A ordinary share. Media Contact |