Future of Business: Baidu’s Robin Li on the Technology Trends that Will Transform Business

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Baidu launched in 2000 as a search engine platform. Two decades later, it’s become one of the few companies in the world that offers a full AI stack. Its core businesses span mobile, cloud, intelligent driving and other growth initiatives, and its products and services have attracted hundreds of millions of users and hundreds of thousands of enterprise customers. Leading all of that is co-founder, CEO, and chairman Robin Li. He explains how Baidu has built generative AI into its business – including their AI chatbot, ERNIE Bot. Robin also shares the technology trends he’s keeping an eye on – from AI bubbles to robotaxis – and how he anticipates these fast-moving changes will transform our world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the HBare IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review.
0:13.3	I'm Alison Beard.
0:24.9	Bidou launched in 2000 as a search engine platform.
0:30.3	Fast forward two decades, and it's now one of the few companies in the world that offers a full AI stack.
0:35.0	Its core businesses spend mobile, cloud, intelligent driving, and other growth initiatives, and its products and services have attracted
0:37.5	hundreds of millions of users and hundreds of thousands of enterprise customers.
0:43.3	Today's guest is leading all of that.
0:45.6	For the third episode in our special series on the future of business, we'll hear from
0:49.5	Robin Lee, the co-founder, chief executive, and chairman of Baidu.
0:53.8	He explains how his company has built generative AI into its business, the co-founder, chief executive, and chairman of Baidu. He explains how his company has built
0:55.2	generative AI into its business, the technology trends he's keeping an eye on, and how he
1:00.2	anticipates these tools will transform our lives. Robin spoke to HBR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius
1:06.1	and took questions from the audience during our recent virtual future of business conference.
1:11.1	Here's their conversation.
1:14.1	So Robin Lee, I know it is very late your time in Beijing, so we appreciate your joining
1:19.4	us live for this. Welcome.
1:21.4	Hi, Adi, thank you for having me. It's great to be here.
1:24.9	Well, it's great to have you. Before we start, let me just remind everyone in the audience to put any questions you have
1:30.4	for Robin in the Ask the Speaker Chat, and I will try to get to as many as I can later.
1:34.9	But Robin, let's get to it.
1:36.1	So why do your company introduced a chat GPT-like product, Ernie Bot last year that last I saw
1:43.4	has more than 300 million users.
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