Baidu once again improves the strategic position of intelligent cloud Li Yanhong sends a letter to all staff
After the Baidu Smart Cloud Summit held last week, new news came from Baidu Smart Cloud. On September 2, Robin Li issued a letter from all staff, announcing the upgrading of the "cloud+AI" strategy and improving the strategic position of Baidu's smart cloud. Yin Shiming, general manager of Baidu's smart cloud, reported to Wang Haifeng, Baidu's CTO.
In the past year, Baidu's smart cloud has been constantly making big moves, and it is clear that Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud are left behind in their anxiety and pursuit.
In December 2018, Baidu upgraded its Intelligent Cloud Business Unit (ACU) to an Intelligent Cloud Business Group (ACG), which also carries the development of AI to B and cloud business.
In April 2019, Yin Shiming, vice president of Baidu and general manager of Baidu Smart Cloud, announced that the "Baidu Cloud" brand was fully upgraded to "Baidu Smart Cloud", and promoted the intelligent upgrading of China's industry with more advanced AI capabilities with ABC's trinity strategy.
Yin Shiming, Vice President of Baidu and General Manager of Baidu Smart Cloud
This time, the strategic position of Baidu Smart Cloud has been improved, which has been the "double jump" of Baidu Smart Cloud in the past year. In recent years, Baidu Intelligent Cloud has also given development achievements that are proportional to the degree of attention.
In the report on China's public cloud in the first quarter of 2019 released by Canalys and Synergy Research, Baidu Smart Cloud ranks among the top four public cloud service providers of China's PAAS (platform as a service) and IAAS (infrastructure as a service).
At the fourth "ABC SUMMIT 2019 Baidu Cloud Intelligence Summit" held on August 28, Yin Shiming released 20 new products, including Baidu Kunlun Cloud Server and 4K video processing solutions. He also introduced that the number of users and revenue of Baidu Smart Cloud had doubled in the past year, and the traffic and servers had tripled, making Baidu the fastest growing cloud manufacturer in China.
In this internal letter, Robin Li said that Baidu Intelligent Cloud Business Group (ACG) was the "pacesetter" for the intelligent implementation of Baidu AI industry. Baidu further upgraded the "cloud+AI" strategy to further improve the strategic position of Baidu Intelligent Cloud. From now on, Baidu Intelligent Cloud and CTO system are effectively integrated Yin Shiming, general manager of Baidu Smart Cloud, together with the ACG team, reported to Wang Haifeng, chief technology officer of the group.
The following is the letter from all staff ：
Dear Baidu students, everyone!
In 2016, when we first proposed the "next act, artificial intelligence", we could not imagine that artificial intelligence would have such a rapid impact on the country, industry and society. In just three years, AI has become a social consensus and a national strategy from those cool technologies that everyone likes to talk about. Baidu was the first to set up a leading position in the field of artificial intelligence. When the tide of industrial intelligence comes, what we need to do is to solidly promote the penetration of artificial intelligence in various industries to meet the best era, our era.
In order to more efficiently export Baidu AI's leading ability to the industry and make Baidu a key force in leading the industrial production of artificial intelligence, the company decided to further upgrade the "cloud+AI" strategy and further improve the strategic position of Baidu's intelligent cloud. From now on, Baidu Smart Cloud and CTO system are effectively integrated. Yin Shiming, vice president of the company and general manager of Baidu Smart Cloud, together with the ACG team, reports to Wang Haifeng, chief technology officer of the group.
Baidu Intelligent Cloud Business Group (ACG) is the "pacesetter" of Baidu AI industry intelligent landing. Under the guidance of the "cloud+AI" strategy, the intelligent cloud business group has made remarkable achievements in the past year, with the number of users and revenue doubling, traffic and servers tripling, and becoming the first cloud service provider in China. This upgrade of the organizational structure is a major measure for the company to further upgrade the business strategy of "ABC Smart Cloud", which is conducive to accelerating the input of the underlying technical capabilities accumulated in the implementation of TG's mid platform strategy into the cloud, more conducive to accelerating the commercialization of AIG's AI capabilities, and enabling technology to support business more directly and efficiently on the cloud platform.
AI is entering a new stage of large-scale implementation, and we are facing a critical period when AI will enter the fields, mine buildings and thousands of households. We need to quickly build an intelligent cloud with artificial intelligence as the center, big data as the support, and cloud computing as the basis of the deep integration of the three in one of ABC. Together with the vast number of industrial developers, we need to jointly promote the intelligent upgrading of industries in all walks of life in China, and help more enterprises improve their operational efficiency and competitiveness.
It is expected that Haifeng will continue to lead the team to forge ahead, not only to create the most advanced technology platform in the AI era, but also to further strengthen the application of technology, become a close partner of customer intelligent transformation, and contribute to Baidu's great mission of "making the complex world simpler with technology"!
