Recently, the "2021 Baidu Highest Award" was awarded, and four teams were awarded the highest award worth US $1 million by Robin Li, with a total of nearly 26 million yuan. This is Baidu's highest annual award and one of the most important honors in the technology industry.
Honored "Language Spirit", "Figure Paddle", "Pilot"“ Yugong "team has made innovations and breakthroughs in open domain dialogue system, graph neural network technology, automatic driving, intelligent marketing, etc. Li Yanhong said at the awarding scene that the top prize of Baidu has gone through 11 years of history. Whether inside Baidu, the Internet industry, or even the entire scientific and technological community, they have formed a recognition of the top prize of Baidu. After years of precipitation and repeated refinement, the teams shortlisted for Baidu Top Prize represent a very high level of technology.
As early as July 2010, Robin Li proposed to set up the "Baidu Highest Award". As the top award to encourage creativity and innovation, the selection of "Baidu Top Award" always adheres to three principles: first, the project is important enough enough; 2、 The results were far better than expected, Above and beyond expectations; 3、 The team can't have more than ten people, and there can't be director level people.
This is also the highest reward for ordinary employees in domestic Internet enterprises so far. Up to now, the total amount of Baidu's highest award is nearly 300 million yuan.
In addition to talent investment, Baidu is in the forefront of the world in innovation investment and R&D layout. In 2020, Baidu's core R&D expenses will account for 21.4% of its revenue, and the intensity of R&D investment will continue to lead among large technology companies in China.
Only by building a real talent potential can enough innovation be promoted. Up to now, as one of the few technology companies in the world with full stack AI technology, Baidu has applied for more than 10000 global AI patents, including more than 9000 Chinese patents, ranking first in China, and ranking first in many fields such as deep learning technology, intelligent voice, natural language processing, automatic driving, knowledge mapping, intelligent recommendation, etc.
Both the distance of "the stars and the sea" and the determination to face the present, Baidu's technological journey has just begun. Under the general trend of integrated development of cloud, AI and Internet, Baidu's three major growth engines continued to work, all AI new businesses accelerated to land, intelligent cloud business continued to grow strongly, and intelligent driving, small assistants, Kunlun chips and other businesses made phased breakthroughs.
With a new wave of innovation dividends sweeping across the world, Baidu is accelerating the application of key core technology innovation by virtue of its long-term investment and accumulation in AI technology, constantly helping enterprises in all fields to accelerate digital transformation, accelerate the process of China's economic intelligence, and continue to use scientific and technological innovation to create value for society, serve the times, and serve everyone.
