Game on with Tencent and Alibaba: Baidu integrates cloud with big data and AI - AllChinaTech

At the strategy conference of Baidu cloud computing on Wednesday, Baidu launched three intelligent cloud platforms. They will integrate with pre-existing cloud services for its open cloud platforms to help enterprises increase working efficiency. Baidu founder and CEO Robin Li said that Baidu has been a de facto search engine company from the very beginning, but that the company was bound to move into cloud technology, as efficient web searching is made possible via the cloud. Li said that Baidu used to consider cloud computing as too simple a technology and would rather focus on building its web search engine, but then some recent changes happened: On the one hand, the days are gone when economic development is accelerated by a cheap labor force, and companies today must survive using technological innovations and higher efficiency. On the other hand, cloud technology has been making breakthroughs, and it is no longer merely about storage and computing.