Baidu to establish second R&D center in Silicon Valley: Report ZDNet

China's largest search engine provider Baidu Inc announced on Friday that it will launch another R&D facility in Silicon Valley to lure more talent and keep propelling its advances in artificial intelligence (AI), according to a Bloomberg report. The second R&D footprint in Silicon Valley will add capacity for 150 employees, and will be a mile apart from its existing site in California's Sunnyvale that holds about 200 people, the report added. Baidu has put AI development as one of its top priorities for further revenue growth as the company has lost ground to competitors in China, Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group, Bloomberg said. The report added that Baidu owns about 1,300 engineers working on the technology across sites in China and the United States. The news follows Andrew Ng, a first-class AI expert in the world, last week announcing his departure from Baidu after serving for three years.