Baidu

Baidu AI Cloud rents compute capacity from Baidu’s own cloud and AI infrastructure. It combines mainstream cloud services with GPU-backed environments and AI platform tools aimed at model development and deployment. Also develops its own Ernie foundation models, China's answer to GPT/Gemini.

Ecosystem functionBaidu AI Cloud is the most AI-branded of China’s large incumbents, with a stronger identity around AI workloads than a general cloud-only positioning.

Business modelAI cloud IaaS