Baidu is a leading AI company with a strong Internet foundation. Baidu's vision is to become the world's top high-tech company that understands users the most and can help people grow.

The two characters "Baidu" come from a line by the Southern Song Dynasty poet Xin Qiji eight hundred years ago: "Search for him a thousand Baidu in the crowd. This sentence describes the poet's persistent pursuit of ideals. At the end of 1999, Robin Lee, who was in Silicon Valley of the United States, saw the huge development potential of China's Internet and Chinese search engine services. Holding the dream of changing the world with technology, he resolutely quit his high paying job in Silicon Valley and founded Baidu in Zhongguancun on January 1, 2000 with search engine patented technology.

Baidu has tens of thousands of R&D engineers, making it one of the top technical teams in China and even globally. This team possesses the world's leading search engine technology, making Baidu a Chinese high-tech enterprise that masters the world's cutting-edge scientific core technology. It also makes China one of only four countries in the world, apart from the United States, Russia, and South Korea, to have core search engine technology.