Baidu and NVIDIA sign an impressive agreement, beneficial to both companies, as NVIDIA offers its excellent products and services to Baidu and it manages to leverage its AI and autonomous vehicle technologies.

The Chinese internet giant Baidu announced this morning that it has reached a technology agreement with NVIDIA, the giant of graphics cards and artificial intelligence systems. NVIDIA will provide different products to the internet giant Baidu, which will use it in different products and services. This has happened within the Baidu Create congress, when they have announced the beginning of collaboration between the companies, starting with up to four business collaborations within artificial intelligence. The first collaborative system will be to establish a cloud computing service, based on NVIDIA Tesla hardware.

Baidu wants to establish the most powerful cloud service on the market and that is why it will implement the new NVIDIA graphics with the Volta GPU, counting on the Tesla V100, to improve performance and computing power. The second collaboration between the two companies is in the optimization of Baidu PaddlePaddle, a technology for deep learning in parallel with Volta technology. This technology will allow the enhancement of Baidu technology, accompanied by open source licenses, for performance optimization and the implementation of new technologies.

The third collaboration will be based on Project Apollo, a project in which Baidu and NVIDIA were already collaborating, but which further strengthen their collaboration, allowing the development of an open autonomous driving system, which was announced at the beginning of the year. company. Baidu is fully adopting the NVIDIA DRIVE PX2 system for Apollo, which will allow for a system upgrade and enhancement. They are now looking to develop commercial systems, designed under NVIDIA's Xavier technology.

Finally, the last section of the collaboration between the companies is based on taking advantage of the ecosystem of the Baidu Duer voice system and its implementation with Shield. NVIDIA's solution is very well implemented with Google services such as the Google Assistant, an open door to the Chinese market, where Google and its services are blocked. This opens a new market for NVIDIA, a market in which it was already entering and which will be enhanced with the new agreement, introducing its products in the most powerful company in the country of the rising sun.

Source: AnandTech