Baidu and Xiaomi are working together on internet of things and artificial intelligence

Baidu, China’s answer to Google, and Xiaomi, that has sculptured itself on the success of the America’s most prospering technology manufacturer in Apple, have proclaimed a strategic partnership to tackle 2 rising technologies, web of things and AI.

Announced nowadays at Xiaomi’s 1st developer conference in Peiping, the alliance could be a wedding between the third most precious publically listed Chinese technology company in Baidu and one in all the world’s most precious non-public corporations, Xiaomi.

Clocking in with a capitalization of $86 billion, Baidu is not any slouch on the worldwide technology stage — with AI and deep learning among its core focuses — whereas Xiaomi has become a key player in China and created inroads in rising markets like India due to its reasonable phones and sensible devices that punch well higher than their tag.

The pair ar asserting a collaboration for the primary time, however TechCrunch understands that Baidu’s informal package — DuerOS — is already gift in some Xiaomi hardware. That’s very little legendary as a result of it absolutely was left unbranded, however currently the businesses have created their partnership official.

Exact details of the tie-up don't seem to be being disclosed straight away, however the 2 corporations same can now explore opportunities in voice recognition, deep learning and pc vision, additionally to a lot of work with  DuerOS. more thereto, Baidu’s technical school reach conjointly extends into artificial intelligence, AR, VR and self-driving cars, that may even be areas of joint cooperation within the future for Xiaomi.

Xiaomi chief executive officer Lei Jun (left) with Baidu chairperson, cluster President and COO vim metallic element

Even if the 2 corporations ar simply partnering for the domestic Chinese market a true partnership that will over pay feigning to the potential edges of technology sharing would build every much more competitive than either one on their own.

Baidu has favored a partnership based mostly approach with hardware manufacturers to induce DuerOS and alternative technical school into the hands of shoppers. the corporate doesn’t charge a license tax for the OS — an equivalent applies to the current Xiaomi deal — and it claims to figure with a hundred thirty corporations that cowl smartphones, smart TVs, smartwatches and residential appliances.

Most notably, it recently free details of its 1st sensible speaker, the terribly unambiguously designed Raven series. the merchandise was the fruit of its acquisition of hardware startup Raven earlier this year, however Baidu conjointly roped in Sweden’s adolescent Engineering, that is understood for pushing the envelope on hardware style.