Recently, Baidu Wenxin announced that it would be open to the whole society. On the first day, more than 300 million Baidu search requests were solved by the generative intelligence engine ; the number of users visiting Baidu Search's "AI Partner " exceeded 4 million that day .
Against this background, on September 7 , the second Baidu Search Innovation Competition, with the theme of "New Search·Novelty" and co-sponsored by Baidu Search and NVIDIA , was officially launched . In addition to the core business scenarios of search, this competition involves rich technical directions such as semantic retrieval, multi-modality, software and hardware integration optimization, etc. What’s even more exciting is that a product track was opened for the first time, and hero posts were posted widely, calling on contestants to “ insight into users’ needs in search scenarios and solve them by building AI applications . ”
As a national technology competition, the Baidu Search Innovation Competition is known as the "Olympics" of the search industry . The competition is held to promote industry exchanges, the integration of industry and education, promote innovation in the application of algorithm technology, stimulate continuous innovation in the fields of artificial intelligence and search technology, and discover and cultivate more search talents. According to statistics, in last year's event, more than 1,600 people participated in the event within two months , covering 33 domestic provinces and cities and overseas cities .
Xiao Yang , vice president of Baidu Group and head of the search platform, delivered a speech at the launch of the competition, saying, " As the largest AI application scenario in the world so far, search is the main training ground and the first stop for the implementation of current large-model technology. " Based on years of deep accumulation, Baidu Search combines semantic retrieval technology with large language models to further release the understanding, reasoning, organization and creative potential of search. It is expected to spawn disruptive innovation in many aspects and promote the arrival of the search singularity .
Xiao Yang said, " In the era of native AI , talents are still the primary productive force. What is subverting the industry now may no longer be a company of ten thousand people, but a young team of more than a dozen people. " This competition is also Baidu's search for the industry . One of the measures taken by Chollima .
As the technical partner of this competition , He Tao, the global vice president of NVIDIA , also shared the theme at the kick-off meeting. He pointed out, " Generative AI puts forward high requirements for new computing platforms. Search engines are one of the most complex and challenging applications on the Internet. As the leader of China's AI technology, Baidu is in this wave of generative In the wave of generative AI , Baidu actively reconstructed its business with LLM (Large Language Model), transformed technical advantages into business advantages, and obtained the technological dividends of generative AI . We are pleased to see that Baidu's net profit increased by 44% in the second quarter . "
In addition, Wu Yongwei, chief architect of Baidu's search architecture, Gu Simiao, chief architect of Baidu's search strategy, and other guests also attended the kick-off meeting and made relevant sharing.
At the kick-off meeting of the competition, Baidu Search also announced the open source of its self-developed open source ANN search engine Puck . The Puck open source project contains two self-developed search algorithms by Baidu, aiming at high recall, high accuracy, and high throughput, and is suitable for a variety of data scales and scenarios. With the continuous optimization and iteration of business development, sufficient technology development and testing are carried out to ensure the reliability and maturity of technology. The project is widely used in multiple Baidu product lines, supporting trillions of data and massive requests .