Baidu puts faith in AI agents for efficiency

Chinese technology heavyweight Baidu Inc is betting big on digital employees powered by artificial intelligence agents thanks to the rapid development of AI technology, and emergence of new algorithms, models and applications.

Industry experts said as AI has been increasingly leveraged to identify people's needs and to solve problems, digital workforces have popped up, and are becoming the core carrier for reconstructing organizational forms of enterprises and improving operational efficiency.

Ruan Yu, vice-president of Baidu, said the capabilities of large language models are evolving and advancing at an unprecedented speed, highlighting that the accelerated evolution of models is driving AI to shift from the human-machine collaboration model to AI agent form.