As the epidemic is coming to an end, at the beginning of 2023, factories have accelerated their pace of resumption of work and production, urban fireworks have emerged, and consumption vitality has accelerated. Enterprises are optimistic about future development. Some foreign media said, “China’s economy will achieve a faster recovery than expected.”
From a more macro perspective, the tide of industrialization upgrading is irreversible, and the trend of restructuring the global economic structure will not change. The digital economy is becoming the core driving force of economic development, and cloud computing is becoming an important driving force for the development of the digital economy.
So, how can cloud computing go deep into the industry, deeply integrate with the real economy, and accelerate the pace of China’s economic recovery?
“Baidu is one of the few AI companies in the world that has a full-stack layout. Baidu’s AI technology architecture is divided into four layers: chip layer, framework layer, model layer, and application layer. Dedicated. Being more general means continuously lowering the threshold for the industry to use technology; being more specific means going deep into the industry to deepen the application.” At the 2022 Baidu Create conference on January 10, Li Yanhong gave Baidu’s problem-solving ideas.
Putting the concept into practice, Baidu Smart Cloud is going deep into the industry with the unique advantages of cloud-intelligence integration, allowing more and more enterprises to obtain cutting-edge AI technology and digital experience at a low threshold, which can be said to “reduce costs and increase efficiency” Replicated in industry.
It can be seen from the reports released by several authoritative organizations that in 2022, Baidu Smart Cloud will achieve outstanding results. City, digital human, Internet of Things and other core areas are leaders.
Ranked first in the AI public cloud market for four consecutive years, realizing AI standardization and empowering the industry
As enterprises continue to embrace digitalization and intelligent transformation practices, enterprises are becoming increasingly aware that it is difficult for cloud computing infrastructure to achieve optimal performance and efficiency. Chips, deep learning frameworks, large models, etc. Practical problems such as high technical threshold, huge R&D investment and lack of relevant talents, complex and diverse production scenarios of enterprises, and data islands have not yet been substantively resolved.
These problems have hindered the progress of digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises. After McKinsey investigated the digital transformation progress of more than 800 traditional enterprises around the world, the data obtained are: Although 70% of the enterprises have started digitalization, 71% of them are still in the pilot stage, and 85% of the enterprises are still in the middle stage. It has been more than a year, and it has been too late to achieve large-scale promotion.
Faced with the real technical difficulties of enterprises in digital and intelligent transformation, Robin Li said that the generality of AI technology will become better and better, and the threshold for development and application will be further lowered.
Shen Dou, executive vice president of Baidu Group and president of Baidu Smart Cloud Business Group, also said before: “Cloud computing vendors need to standardize the output of intelligent underlying capabilities, and transform high-threshold technologies such as chips, large models, and deep learning frameworks into Like hydroelectric energy, it can be used by customers on demand.”
Standardization means industry versatility. In this regard, Baidu Smart Cloud has carried out two key actions in 2022. One is to launch a new “cloud-intelligence integration 3.0” architecture, and the other is to release the first full-stack self-developed AI infrastructure in China. “AI Big Base”.
Judging from the public information: the “cloud-intelligence integration 3.0” architecture has formed a set of intelligent closed-loop paths of “chip-framework-large-scale model-industry application”. Each link has key self-developed technologies. It can form information feedback, and achieve end-to-end optimization by continuously obtaining feedback.
Baidu AI Big Base integrates the AI chip “Kunlun Core” at the AI IaaS layer, optimizes the system in terms of AI computing, storage, acceleration, and containers, provides cost-effective computing power, and handles massive data processing, super-large model training and Reasoning; at the AI PaaS layer, integrate the Flying Paddle deep learning framework and Baidu Wenxin large model, and open up Baidu’s sample center, model center, AI development platform, and AI service operation platform to realize data storage to model training, production, deployment, The full link of testing and mass production provide a complete solution for the full life cycle of enterprise model development.
These two actions have enabled Baidu Smart Cloud to provide an overall package of its own infrastructure capabilities and artificial intelligence capabilities. With the support of the general characteristics of the underlying core technology, the various capabilities provided by the AI base It has indeed greatly reduced the threshold for enterprise development and application.
With the support of the “AI base”, the market has given positive feedback to Baidu Smart Cloud. IDC’s latest “2022 H1 China AI Cloud Service Market Research Report” data shows that Baidu Smart Cloud ranks first, accounting for 28.1% of the overall market share. This is Baidu Smart Cloud’s market share for four consecutive years. The two largest sub-markets of human face and image video continued to maintain the first place.
At the same time, in the fastest-growing conversational AI market, Baidu Smart Cloud also maintained strong growth. In the “2021 China Conversational AI Market Report” jointly released by Sullivan and Toubao Research Institute, Baidu’s smart cloud growth index and innovation index both ranked first, firmly ranking in the echelon of market leaders.
Faced with the explosive growth of enterprises’ demand for end-to-end model development and full life cycle management products, Baidu Smart Cloud can provide multi-level, full-process product capability support. In the “2022 Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) Artificial Intelligence Lifecycle Software Tools and Platform Suppliers” assessment report, Baidu also became the only Chinese technology that entered the report by virtue of its leading AI middle platform and AI development “dual platform” enterprise.
Go deep into more than ten industries, focus on the scene of the core area of the industry, and rank first in the market in many fields
While providing the underlying technology to lower the development threshold, Baidu Smart Cloud also goes deep into the industry, exporting the standardized and general-purpose application capabilities formed by the enterprise digital transformation experience and algorithm models accumulated in practice to various industries to help different industries Enterprises can truly realize cost reduction and efficiency increase.
Li Yanhong said at the 2022 Baidu Create conference that AI can penetrate into the industry and empower the development of the real economy. Judging from public information, the solutions accumulated by Baidu Smart Cloud in practice have penetrated into various industries such as industry, finance, energy, smart cities, and digital people.
Industry is the most important part of the real economy. China is the only country that has all the industrial categories in the United Nations industrial classification, and Baidu has also deeply entered the industry, focusing on safe production, quality control, energy consumption optimization, intelligent scheduling, and production management. And other core scenarios, through the integration of cloud and intelligence, it is doing in-depth exploration for the improvement of quality and efficiency of industrial enterprises.
Kaiwu 2.0, an industrial Internet platform of Baidu Smart Cloud, has accumulated more than 200 industrial solutions and accumulated 38,000 industrial models. It has been implemented in Chongqing, Guangzhou, Suzhou and other cities across the country, providing “eyes” and “ears” for industrial production And “brain”, let artificial intelligence such as intelligent quality inspection and knowledge search become a production tool within the reach of small and medium-sized enterprises. In May 2022, Kaiwu was selected into the “Double-Span” platform (cross-industry and cross-field) of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, ranking first among new companies. The “double-span” platform represents the highest level of domestic industrial Internet platform development. According to the IDC report, Kaiwu ranks second in the regional industrial Internet market share, and Baidu Smart Cloud has won the first market share of China’s AI industrial quality inspection solutions for three consecutive years.
In the field of smart cities, Baidu Smart Cloud has served more than 200 government customers, and has continued to improve urban governance and service efficiency through “one network management” of social governance, “one network management” of government services, and “integrated coordination” of industrial development. At present, urban digital transformation construction practice has been carried out in Beijing, Shanghai, Lijiang, Chengdu, Kunming, Guangzhou and other places. In the “IDC Market Scape: China’s Urban Intelligent Computing Platform Market Vendor Evaluation” recently released by IDC, Baidu Smart Cloud ranks as the leader of China’s urban intelligent computing platform by virtue of its leading AI technology, products and solutions.
Finance is the core of the modern economy and the blood of the real economy. Baidu Smart Cloud provides financial institutions with “integrated cloud and intelligence” smart financial solutions, and has served nearly 500 financial industry customers, including policy banks, six state-owned banks, more than 10 joint-stock commercial banks, and more than 30 insurance institutions , hundreds of regional banks, securities, asset management and other financial institutions, covering key financial scenarios such as marketing, risk control, and operations. The IDC report shows that in 2022, Baidu Smart Cloud will rank second in the market share of financial cloud solutions.
As one of the important symbols of the AI era, digital humans have been active in various industries. Baidu Smart Yunxiling platform has created digital goose for the National Center for the Performing Arts, Yuan Xi, a digital employee for China Daily, AI sign language anchor for CCTV News, the first blog Dozens of digital humans such as official Wen Yaoyao were announced and applied in government affairs, cultural tourism, radio and television, interactive entertainment, aerospace and other fields. In the IDC China AI digital human evaluation in 2022, Baidu Smart Cloud relied on its leading AI capabilities, The basic product capabilities, user experience, and outstanding performance in commercialization cases, market and ecological capabilities, and vision have become the leaders of the first echelon.
With the arrival of the Internet of Everything era, the Internet of Things has become an important part of the new infrastructure. In the field of Internet of Things, Baidu Smart Cloud has landed in more than 30 scenarios in industries such as energy, construction engineering, industry, city, transportation, and home furnishing. In “IDC MarketScape: Evaluation of Chinese IoT Cloud Platform Vendors, 2022”, Baidu Smart Cloud ranks among the leaders of Chinese IoT Cloud Platform Vendors. IDC pointed out that Baidu Smart Cloud has the advantages of high inclusiveness, openness and comprehensive AI capabilities in the field of Internet of Things.
As Internet users have a higher demand for video, video cloud has increasingly become the infrastructure of the entire Internet industry. In the video cloud market that continues to grow at a high speed, Baidu Smart Cloud still performed strongly and maintained its leading position in the industry. According to IDC’s “China Video Cloud Market Tracking (First Half of 2022)” report, under the framework of Intelligent Video Cloud 3.0, Baidu Smart Cloud will continue to enrich the two major systems of creation and distribution and the Internet of View, and it will also play a role in virtual human live broadcast, intelligent content production, and monitoring. Achieve technological breakthroughs in content identification and other directions. According to the report, Baidu Smart Cloud video cloud solution market ranks in the top three.
So on the whole, it is not difficult to find that the continuous landing of various solutions in multiple fields and multiple business scopes shows the transferability and replicability of Baidu Smart Cloud’s “integration of cloud and intelligence” capabilities; while in the solution market Achieving a leading or leading position in multiple fields in terms of market share means that these solutions have actually brought tangible and tangible benefits to enterprises after they penetrate the industry.
“Feedback-driven innovation” has become a driving growth methodology
The famous innovation theory researcher Joseph Schumpeter pointed out that innovation is to establish a new production function and introduce a “new combination of production factors” that has never been done before into the production system.
In Baidu Create2022, Li Yanhong also mentioned that innovation drives growth, and feedback drives innovation. “Innovation is not behind closed doors. Innovation is achieved when you have the opportunity to enter the market, continuously obtain feedback from users and customers, and cross the river by feeling the ‘feedback’.”
For Baidu Smart Cloud, “feedback-driven innovation” has in fact become the methodology driving its growth. On the whole, Baidu Smart Cloud has built a positive growth cycle of “feedback-driven innovation”.
Specifically, Baidu Smart Cloud will provide corresponding infrastructure capabilities and solutions based on the actual needs of enterprises, and in-depth industry first-line testing and tuning in practice to improve the efficiency of solutions, and then reverse drive its own technology based on customer feedback The continuous iterative upgrade of solutions and solutions, polished into generalized and standardized products and solutions, and then copied to more industries on a large scale, to support more new scenarios of digital transformation, so the cycle goes on and on, innovation is endless, and continuous Promote Baidu Smart Cloud to outperform the market.
From the perspective of market performance, the financial report shows that the year-on-year revenue growth rates of Baidu Smart Cloud in the first three quarters of 2022 will be 45%, 31%, and 24%, respectively, and the growth rates are much higher than the industry average. According to the Canalys report, Baidu’s smart cloud market share has grown by 12% annually, and the growth rate has exceeded the overall market for three consecutive quarters, ranking among the top four clouds in China.
With the clarion call to promote economic recovery, it is highly probable that the cloud computing market will usher in a new round of growth in 2023. However, as cloud computing penetrates into the real economy and continues to develop in depth, it has created a favorable opportunity for Baidu Smart Cloud, which has both practical results and growth resilience, to achieve new market breakthroughs.
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