Inside Baidu's Bid to Lead the AI Revolution

Presumably, Robin Li wanted attention last summer when he decided to launch Baidu's bid for the future of self-driving cars from the front seat of a car that was driving itself. He wanted to draw attention to Apollo, the company's new set of artificial intelligence-driven tools, which Li hopes will come to power vehicles everywhere. Having launched China's dominant search engine, Li is a celebrity in his home country. But even Li didn't anticipate the amount of attention he would get. Automated motoring is still very much forbidden in China, and Li was livestreaming a video that showed him breaking the law.