Baidu Releases Major Product Updates to Gain Advantages in Intelligent Car Competition

On April 16, Chinese tech big Baidu hosted an automotive intelligence convention forward of Auto Shanghai 2023. At the occasion, Baidu unveiled a variety of recent merchandise targeted on clever driving, cabin know-how, and maps. Furthermore, Baidu offered 4 key capabilities for automotive producers in its just lately revealed “Baidu Apollo Self-Driving Openness White Paper.

The car trade is now in a second of radical change. Baidu predicts that by 2026, the market penetration price of fashions geared up with the L2+ superior clever driving resolution, valet parking freeway navigation pilot and metropolis navigation pilot will exceed 15%, ushering in a transition interval in the clever automobile trade. In 2026, when clever automobiles turn into extra prevalent, new prospects will probably be much less seemingly to contemplate automobiles with out clever driving capabilities, in accordance to Zhenyu Li, Senior Corporate Vice President of Baidu and president of the Intelligent Driving Business Group.

At the convention, Rob Chu, Baidu Corporate Vice President and GM of Apollo Self Driving, and Shan Jizhang, Founder and CEO of Black Sesame Semiconductor introduced that Black Sesame Semiconductor will turn into the newest chip accomplice to Baidu Apollo Smart Driving. Additionally, Apollo Highway Driving Pro will probably be deployed on the Black Sesame’s Huashan II A1000 chip computing platform, which will probably be formally launched in Q3 this yr.

Baidu Apollo launched its flagship clever driving resolution, Apollo City Driving Max, which is supplied with twin Nvidia Orin X with 508 TOPS arithmetic energy. This is the one resolution in China that gives customers a coherent expertise on city roads utilizing pure imaginative and prescient notion. The present product definition additionally contains LIDAR to obtain “pure vision + LIDAR” true notion redundancy. The product makes use of a “lightweight high HD map” that’s practically 80% “lighter” than the standard HD maps, enabling speedy city generalization at a extra affordable price.

Baidu’s built-in auto-navigation plus valet parking resolution Apollo Highway Driving Pro has additionally accomplished an algorithm platform improve. With the newest single TDA4-VH platform, the AI and CPU computing energy utilization is 50% much less in contrast to the earlier TDA4-VH platform. Baidu Apollo and Voyah, an EV producer backed by Dongfeng Motor, additionally introduced the Voyah Free, an all-electric and plug-in-hybrid 5-seater SUV, will probably be geared up with Apollo Highway Driving Pro, which incorporates assisted driving capabilities resembling freeway navigation pilot, metropolis autopilot and environment friendly parking in all eventualities.

Baidu Apollo additionally upgraded its autonomous parking resolution Apollo Parking, which has successful price of over 99% in the highest 5 mostly confronted parking eventualities and takes solely 28 seconds to full perpendicular parking.

Baidu Apollo at present supplies two flagship Intelligent Cabin options: the DuerOS for Apollo and Duer assistant for Apollo. The DuerOS will be rapidly put in for mass manufacturing as a complete bundle resolution; whereas the Duer assistant, based mostly on the massive mannequin localization, is ready to obtain full-time full-duplex100 millisecond-level response, via which automotive firms can outline and understand a number one clever cabin expertise. At the identical time, ERNIE Bot – a big language mannequin which Baidu had beforehand launched – has been opened up for invitational testing. Baidu is actively exploring the usage of ERNIE Big Model’s capabilities to reshape the connection between the consumer and the sensible cabin when touring, and to create new experiences for the AI sensible cabin.

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In phrases of sensible maps, Baidu Apollo has upgraded its in-vehicle navigation maps with totally different ranges of high quality, efficiency and real-time information. The newly launched shared autonomy maps present a brand new human-vehicle interface and improve customers’ belief in sensible driving options.

The “Baidu Apollo Self Driving Openness White Paper” confirmed 4 key capabilities: open expertise definition, open unbiased expertise evolution, open full-cycle OTA providers, and open co-create with automotive manufacturing companions. At the identical time, Baidu Apollo will present technical help and coaching to the product, R&D and supply groups of automotive firms by organising a joint product committee in cooperation with them to collaboratively construct a extra full clever driving ecosystem.

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