Baidu

China's leading AI company, Baidu launched ERNIE Bot to 200M users and holds the highest-level robotaxi license for autonomous driving in San Francisco through its Apollo platform. With $15 billion invested in AI and 18+ years of AI research, Baidu is the undisputed Chinese AI champion—its 200M ERNIE Bot users outpace #2-ranked Tencent's Hunyuan by 50M, and its Apollo robotaxis have completed 10 million rides, outperforming the average autonomous fleet by 30%.