Photo taken on Sept. 8, 2020 shows the logo of Baidu at the comprehensive exhibition area of the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)
BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese tech giant Baidu on Tuesday released a white paper which shows that it had filed more than 22,000 artificial intelligence (AI) patent applications globally by April 2022, reported China Securities Journal.
The white paper also shows that more than 16,000 AI patent applications of Baidu were filed in China, with more than 4,600 authorized.
According to the white paper, in 2021, Baidu's core research and development (R&D) accounted for 23 percent of the company's core revenue, a year-on-year increase of 1.6 percentage points and an increase of 8 percentage points over 2018, with the R&D intensity ranking first among the top 500 private companies in China.
The company's R&D input mainly targets fields like basic technology innovation, unmanned self-driving technology, and industrial intelligent accelerator.
Baidu has built PaddlePaddle, the first self-developed, feature-rich and industrial-level open-source platform for deep learning in China, which serves 4.06 million developers and 157,000 enterprises and institutions.
According to Questel, a global intellectual property research institute, by the end of 2021, PaddlePaddle took the most share in the comprehensive market of deep learning platforms in China.
Baidu's self-driving technology is moving faster in realizing commercial operation since the company released its self-driving travel service platform "luobokuaipao" in August 2021.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, the number of passenger orders on the platform reached 213,000, and the figure is still growing at a high speed in 2022.
Baidu has provided self-driving travel services to citizens in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing and other cities, and has started commercial charging operation services in Beijing, Chongqing and Yangquan.
According to a report released by Clarivate, a global consulting agency, Baidu ranked first in the world with 1,537 self-driving patent families in 2021.
(Edited by Zhang Yao, Gu Shanshan with Xinhua Silk Road, gushanshan.1987@163.com)
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