On the occasion of Baidu's 25th anniversary, founder Robin Li wrote a letter to all employees, reviewing the company's development history and looking forward to its future development direction. The letter emphasized that technological innovation is Baidu's core competitiveness, reviewed Baidu's journey from two huts to today's Chinese Internet giant, and demonstrated Baidu's deep cultivation and achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, as well as its expectations for future AI technology applications.
On the occasion of Baidu's 25th anniversary, company founder Robin Li issued a letter to all employees, reviewing Baidu's development history and looking forward to the future. Robin Li emphasized in the letter that Baidu has always been at the forefront of technological development and firmly believes that technological innovation is the company's core competitiveness.
Robin Li pointed out that Baidu has always invested more than 20% of its funds in research and development in its history, and is committed to transforming cutting-edge technologies into actual products to benefit more people. He emphasized that large-scale application is the key to the value of technology and is also the way to achieve major technological breakthroughs and disruptive innovation. Robin Li took Baidu's practice in the field of artificial intelligence as an example to illustrate this point.
In the letter, Robin Li expressed his expectations for 2025, believing that although super applications have not yet emerged, the actual penetration rate of AI is already quite high and is expected to continue to grow rapidly in 2025. He hopes that the seeds sown by Baidu in 2023 and 2024 will bear fruit in 2025 and be recognized by the market.
Robin Li also reviewed Baidu's entrepreneurial history, starting from two huts in Zhongguancun to becoming an important step in the history of China's Internet. He mentioned that Baidu started with a simple web search function and gradually developed a series of star products such as Tieba, Zhizhi, Encyclopedia, Maps, Library, and Netdisk, and built a full-stack technology from chips to applications in the era of artificial intelligence. .
Robin Li admitted that standing at the forefront of technology means taking greater risks and facing a higher probability of failure, but Baidu has always insisted on exploring and innovating in AI technology. For example, he said, Baidu pioneered the world's first image-based retrieval enhancement technology iRAG, which reduced the illusion of image generation; it released Miaoda, allowing people who cannot write programs to have the ability of programmers; in the field of large model applications , providing paying users of Wenku with excellent content creation and ideological collision capabilities.
Robin Li expressed his gratitude to all employees for their loyalty and investment, and hoped that Baidu would continue to move forward and create a more brilliant future. This letter is not only a celebration of Baidu’s achievements over the past 25 years, but also an expectation and commitment for future development.
This letter is not only a summary of Baidu's achievements in the past 25 years, but also a guide to future development. It demonstrates Baidu's persistent pursuit of technological innovation and its confidence and expectations for future development. It indicates that Baidu will continue to deepen its efforts in the field of artificial intelligence. Create a more brilliant future.