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Baidu in was still at its peak. One day in early December, Robin Li, on behalf of Baidu, participated in the auction with three other buyers: Google, Microsoft, and DeePMind. The bidding object was the Hinton team that had just challenged ImagNet with four NVIDIA GPUs: including Hinton, the doctoral supervisor, and his two students, soul of OpenAI: Ilya Sutskever. A few hours later, Hinton's team finally sold it to Google
for million. If Baidu or Microsoft had succeeded in Malaysia Phone Number Data bidding at that time, the development of artificial intelligence might have been rewritten, and Baidu would not be as miserable as it is today. Although the auction did not win, Baidu management, including Robin Li, witnessed with their own eyes how Google spared no effort to invest in deep learning. Stimulated, Baidu began to make up its mind to invest, and began to invest hundreds of billions in financial
support over ten years. At the same time, it established In-depth Learning Institute IDL (In-depth Learning Institute). Then, Baidu announced a news that shocked the Chinese Internet community. It was the first Chinese Internet company to fully transform from an Internet company to an AI technology company. You know, at that time, the east wind of the mobile Internet was just blowing, and the total number of WeChat users reached Billion, Kuaishou and Douyin’s short video empires have also shown their prominence.
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