Baidu, every mention
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every year anyone Benedict Evans 21Frank Chen 9Connie Chan 9Ion Stoica 2Chris Dixon 2Alex Rampell 2Marc Andreessen 1Graham Allison 1Dario Amodei 1Clay Shirky 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Baidu comes up
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 28:31 Marc Andreessen Um, and then there's, you know, and then, um, you know, there's also Tencent and Baidu, um, and, um, ByteDance, um, you know, that are all primary, you know, companies doing a lot of work in AI.
Improving AI with Anthropic's Dario Amodei
- ▶ 2:07 Dario Amodei Uh, and so I ended up joining, uh, Andrew Ng's group at Baidu that worked on speech recognition.
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 38:08 Frank Chen Let me show you a demo that Baidu put up on the web just three weeks ago to give you a sense of how far we've come. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A New Lab Rises
- ▶ 19:55 Ion Stoica Now, the other part of the question is say, well, look, Google or Microsoft or even now Chinese companies, Baidu and so forth. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 6:03 Graham Allison So if you look at Tencent, or at Alibaba, or at Baidu, or at Weibo, you see, I mean, actually, if you just compare in terms of market cap, what's happened in the last, in this year, Tencent and Alibaba are both up 45% just this year.
a16z Podcast | What Technology Wants, Needs, Does
- ▶ 14:53 Frank Chen This is why talking to your phone in Chinese is now three times faster than typing, right, which is why Baidu is spending so much money trying to do this, ah, speech to text magically, and so every language has their own quirk, ah, like…
a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
- ▶ 21:18 Frank Chen The Baidu chief scientist of their autonomous unit says, you know, if you think you have a challenge in America, come to China and watch the pedestrians and you know, the, the actual traffic.
a16z Podcast | When Humanity Meets A.I.
- ▶ 18:43 Frank Chen Your colleague, Andrew Ng, who used to be at Stanford and now runs the AI lab at Baidu, has called Tesla's autopilot system irresponsible because it got into a crash, because there are well-known scenarios basically where the system…
a16z Podcast | Bots and Beyond
- ▶ 10:08 Benedict Evans And so, you know, to look at a completely different model, which is Baidu Maps, you go into Baidu Maps, and you search for a service, and the, you can only search for stuff that's local, so to speak. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:29 Benedict Evans And so the reason I mentioned Baidu Maps, and Connie wrote a great blog post about Baidu Maps, is like there you're not using search, you're using location as the kind of filter for how do you discover stuff. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:10 Benedict Evans And you will not go into Baidu, you would not go into Baidu maps and search for stuff that isn't local.
a16z Podcast | Data Network Effects
- ▶ 2:55 Alex Rampell Um, Google, Baidu, Facebook, people that have large corpus, corpuses are just, they, they have such a huge advantage
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 21:47 Benedict Evans Kind of conversation for another day, then you look at what's happening on handsets, and it's like, okay, Facebook trying to move the disaggregate, Facebook trying to do what WeChat, and to some extent Baidu have moved in China, which has…
a16z Podcast | 'In the Eye of a Tornado': Views on Innovation from China
- ▶ 9:07 Clay Shirky The real question is, and it's a question not just for Xiaomi, but for Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Sina, the big Chinese internet companies.
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 35:58 Alan Knott Craig So something like e-commerce, you know, Jack Ma or Baidu or
a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- ▶ 5:01 Benedict Evans Um, Baidu has done that in Maps, um, in much the same way.
- ▶ 5:01 Benedict Evans Um, Baidu has done that in Maps, um, in much the same way.
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 14:57 Connie Chan Um, you have another dynamic where the big players, Tencent, Ali, Baba, and Baidu are all making large investments and acquisitions in the space, so there's a lot of capital coming from strategics.
- ▶ 34:14 Connie Chan Yeah, well, I mean, in China, uh, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, um, but even companies like, like a Xiaomi or a Chihu are very active in areas that are outside of their core product.
- ▶ 42:42 Connie Chan I'd say the best students are still open to working at startups, just as they are working at an Alibaba or a Tencent or a Baidu.
a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
- ▶ 31:57 Azim Azhar You'd be, I think you'd be hard pushed, um, to say, look at, um, voice interfaces, you know, between, uh, Apple, Microsoft, Google, um, Baidu, uh, and Nuance, uh, that's quite a crowded field, uh, field already, so it does feel like there…
a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
- ▶ 37:39 Alex Rampell So because like, if you, if you look at Baidu, if you look at a lot of the big companies over there, like a lot of their focus is on enabling online to offline.
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 26:50 Annalise Saxenian Yeah, so that Baidu in China was, it was a knockoff of Google, but it figured out what Chinese people want much more quickly, you know.
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- ▶ 8:52 Chris Schroeder Uh, Alibaba in China, Baidu in China, Yemisepeki, which is the seamless of Turkey, MercadoLibre, which is the Amazon of Latin America.
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 13:53 Benedict Evans And then when you go to, you know, when you go to China, then you have WeChat and Baidu maps and all sorts of other things, which you're providing again, these new kind of, these new kind of sites of aggregation and discovery and, and,…
a16z Podcast | The Topic That's Lasted the Entire History of Computing -- Bundling and Unbundling
- ▶ 3:06 Benedict Evans so I, so the thing that I, that struck me was, and I was, I was looking particularly at what Baidu has been doing with maps in China, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:06 Benedict Evans so I, so the thing that I, that struck me was, and I was, I was looking particularly at what Baidu has been doing with maps in China, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:07 Benedict Evans And indeed, if you go into Baidu and you want a taxi, it will show you all the cabs in your city from the five different taxi companies that are in that city, and then it will bid for all of them, and, you know, whoever, whoever gives the…
- ▶ 18:43 Benedict Evans Which is why the sort of, you know, that's kind of the Facebook approach versus the Baidu approach, you know.
- ▶ 18:48 Benedict Evans If you stuff everything into the Maps application and you do it right, then, you know, you don't have a problem getting people to install Baidu Maps, but then you've got a real challenge around how do we make, get people to know what the…
a16z Podcast | China and Tech
- ▶ 0:32 Connie Chan B stands for Baidu, A stands for Alibaba, and T stands for Tencent. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:28 Chris Dixon Um, you know, Google has obviously hasn't succeeded against Baidu.
- ▶ 9:11 Chris Dixon So are these guys going to, are the bat companies going to try to come into the US and go head to head against, is Baidu going to try to take on Google in the US, or like, is that, are they going to come in and
- ▶ 13:48 Connie Chan But, you know, even on the mapping front, um, while Baidu is the market leader there, I, I looked at Tencent's mapping product recently, and their street view was, uh, phenomenal, phenomenal technology, actually.
Rise of the Super App: Mobile-First Product Ideas from China
- ▶ 3:37 Connie Chan In fact, navigating through WeChat or Alipay or Baidu Maps is actually sometimes easier than my iPhone home screen because I don't have to even press the home button.
AI: What's Working, What's Not
- ▶ 0:34 Frank Chen In China, it's BAT, it's Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent.
16 Questions About Self Driving Cars
- ▶ 19:38 Frank Chen We've got Baidu, Ford, Next EV, Leico, Future Mobility Corp, VM Motor, Lucid Motors, BYD, Tesla, Nissan, BMW, GM, Toyota, Mercedes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:48 Frank Chen Volkswagen and Baidu says there are already to be systems on the planet.