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Chinese AI and internet company (NASDAQ: BIDU; HKEX: 9888) that operates Apollo Go, the largest autonomous ride-hailing (robotaxi) operation in the Eastern…

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Founded
2000
HQ
Beijing, China
Status
public (NASDAQ: BIDU; HKEX: 9888)
Models
2
Deployments
7

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Overview

Chinese AI and internet company (NASDAQ: BIDU; HKEX: 9888) that operates Apollo Go, the largest autonomous ride-hailing (robotaxi) operation in the Eastern hemisphere by scale and ride volume. As of late 2025/early 2026, Apollo Go had surpassed 17 million cumulative rider orders and expanded to ~22 cities worldwide, including Wuhan, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing, and Hong Kong domestically, plus international operations in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Baidu designs its own electric robotaxi vehicles (the sixth-generation Apollo RT6, built on its Apollo Galaxy / Xinghe self-driving platform, at ~204,600 RMB / ~$28,600 per vehicle, roughly half the prior generation's cost). Wuhan is its largest and flagship deployment (1,000+ vehicles), where Apollo Go reached per-vehicle profitability. Baidu received China's first fully-driverless commercial robotaxi permits (Chongqing and Wuhan, August 2022). The company reports its driverless fleet averages ~10.14 million km between airbag deployments. Apollo Go has announced forward plans to scale to tens of thousands of vehicles across Chinese mega-cities and to expand into Europe (including a vehicle-supply agreement with Lyft, Aug 2025). Forward targets, not current deployments.

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5 incidents on file

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Models (2)

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Current platform

Xiaodu Pro AI Glasses

The Baidu Xiaodu Pro is a camera-and-audio AI glasses product with no display, marketed explicitly as not being AR glasses, made through Baidu's Xiaodu Technology subsidiary. At 39 grams with titanium hinges, a Sony 12-megapixel camera shooting 4K photos and 1440p30 video, a four-microphone array, and prescription-lens support in Boston and Cat-Eye styles, it is built around Baidu's ERNIE large language model for first-person ask-about-what-you-see question answering, object and calorie recognition, encyclopedia lookup, audio and visual translation, and reminders. It is recorded as a new model under the existing Baidu company, which also develops the Baidu Apollo autonomous-driving brain in the registry. Its shipping status resolves an open question: first announced at Baidu World 2024 and slated for the first half of 2025, it slipped before going on retail sale on November 11, 2025 as the Xiaodu Pro on JD.com and Tmall at 2,299 yuan, roughly $322, with next-day delivery, so it is genuinely shipping rather than announce-only, placing it at commercial maturity as the newest of the Wave 3 glasses with no independent sales figures yet. The AI is primary and genuine, marketed as the first native AI glasses powered by a Chinese large language model with the ERNIE-driven assistant as the headline rather than veneer, though cloud-dependent. The ERNIE on-device-versus-cloud split, real-world assistant quality, and sales volume are not verified, and the original 16-megapixel specification from the 2024 announcement was superseded by the shipping Sony 12-megapixel camera.

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Current platform

Apollo RT6

Baidu's sixth-generation autonomous robotaxi, a purpose-built battery-electric vehicle (cross between an SUV and a minivan, with a detachable steering wheel) built on Baidu's Apollo Galaxy / Xinghe self-driving platform. Manufactured by Baidu without relying on a third-party automaker, at roughly 204,600 RMB (~$28,600) per vehicle, about half the cost of the prior generation. Powers Apollo Go's fully-driverless commercial ride-hailing service across Chinese cities and international markets.

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IIDG CapitalInvestorSSoftBank Vision Fund 2InvestorBBaiduCustomer

Current leadership (2)

  • Robin Li Co-founder, Chairman & CEOsecondary-verified
  • Wang Yunpeng Corporate VP; President, Intelligent Driving Groupsecondary-verified

Founders (1)

Former / Previously (6)

Safety record

5 incidents on record (1 critical, 3 serious, 1 moderate). Most recent: Apr 2026.

critical
1
serious
3
moderate
1
injury
2
regulatory action
1
malfunction
1
other
1

Most recent: Apr 2026

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Incidents affecting Baidu (5)

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Operated deployments (7)

Operator customers (1)

Brains developed (1)

Recent coverage

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Jun 29, 2026

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