On October 22, the "2024 Baidu Top Ten Scientific and Technological Frontier Inventions" conference with the theme of "Frontier Inventions, Leading New Changes in the AI Industry" was held in Beijing. Among this year's top ten cutting-edge inventions, large models have become an important starting point for industrial innovation and unlocking new productivity. AI native applications are being integrated into all aspects of production and life. Pan Xinsheng, Deputy Director of the Beijing Intellectual Property Office, and Wang Haifeng, Baidu Chief Technology Officer (CTO), attended the ceremony and delivered speeches at the press conference.
Baidu Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Wang Haifeng said that cutting-edge inventions not only support Baidu to improve its own products, business effects and efficiency, but also restructure Baidu's product AI natively and contribute to the empowerment of thousands of industries with artificial intelligence. Baidu releases the top ten inventions. On the one hand, it encourages more innovation and creation by commending these cutting-edge achievements that lead industrial innovation; on the other hand, it encourages the industry to apply more of these achievements and accelerate the industrialization process. As early as 2017, Baidu began to explore and research large model technology, and further broke through the agent technology based on thinking models, expanding the capabilities of large models and promoting the explosion of large model applications.
Pan Xinsheng, deputy director of the Beijing Intellectual Property Office, pointed out that in recent years, the country has attached great importance to the development of the artificial intelligence industry, and Beijing is vigorously promoting the construction of artificial intelligence innovation centers and industrial highlands. The Municipal Intellectual Property Office strongly supports leading industrial intellectual property companies represented by Baidu, carries out the construction of industrial intellectual property promotion centers in key areas, and uses intellectual property as a link to drive strong chains and efficiency gains in key industries. As a leading company in the field of artificial intelligence, Baidu's innovative technology and intellectual property work have been at the forefront of the country. It is hoped that Baidu will take this press conference as an opportunity to continue to strengthen technological innovation and use artificial intelligence technology to accelerate the high-quality development of empowering industries.
Today, the integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy is accelerating. my country's complete industrial system provides a broad application stage for artificial intelligence technology, promotes industrial transformation and upgrading, and becomes a key force in technological revolution and industrial transformation. The two sessions in 2024 proposed the "artificial intelligence +" strategy, emphasizing the importance of AI in the digital economy and accelerating the realization of high-level technological self-reliance. As a leading technology company, Baidu actively promotes the large-scale implementation of technology, strengthens independent innovation, and achieves remarkable results in urban, transportation, industry, finance and other fields, contributing to the goal of becoming a technological and industrial power. The AI industry is at a singularity, technological dividends will be released, and technological development will also inject new impetus into the transformation of various industries.
At the meeting, Cui Lingling, general manager of Baidu Group’s Patent Affairs Department, released “Baidu’s Top Ten Technological Frontier Inventions in 2024”. She said that Baidu's release of these cutting-edge inventions is not only a concentrated display of Baidu's technological innovation capabilities, but also a profound insight into the future development trend of artificial intelligence. "Baidu's cutting-edge patented inventions in the field of artificial intelligence cover all-round breakthroughs from basic algorithms to application scenarios, and are leading new changes in the AI industry. We hope to continue to accelerate the industrialization process of patented technologies to promote thousands of industries. Intelligent upgrades to promote high-quality and sustainable economic development.”
Since entering the AI field in 2013, Baidu has been insisting on intensive and marathon R&D investment, with a total R&D investment of nearly 170 billion yuan in the past ten years. According to the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Patent Technology Analysis Report" released by the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center and the Electronic Intellectual Property Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in April this year, as of the end of 2023, Baidu had applied for 19,308 patents in the entire field of artificial intelligence and granted 9,260 patents. Baidu has ranked first in China for six consecutive years; in the new generation AI field with large models as the core, Baidu applied for 1,432 patents and authorized 651, becoming a leader in technological innovation and patent layout. According to the generative artificial intelligence patent landscape insights released by the patent database organization IFIclaims, Baidu's generative artificial intelligence patent applications are among the top 10 in the world. It is the only Chinese innovation subject to enter the list, and the patented technology covers text, image, voice, and video. In the large basic field, it has become one of the four companies in the world with comprehensive layout in these four fields. Baidu's leading position in the field of artificial intelligence and large model technology and its excellent patent layout are inseparable from its long-term and continuous investment and focus on AI technology.
It is reported that on November 12, Baidu World 2024 with the theme of "Applications Are Here" will be held in Shanghai. As a high-profile technology conference of the year, Baidu will also release its latest results, once again bringing eye-catching technological breakthroughs and product launches. At the same time, Baidu will continue to strengthen the rapid development of the digital intelligence industry through continued R&D investment and technological innovation, bringing more momentum to high-quality economic growth.