{"id":20858,"date":"2025-03-31T18:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=20858"},"modified":"2025-03-31T18:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:36:53","slug":"xjtlu-baidu-ai-joint-venture-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=20858","title":{"rendered":"XJTLU-Baidu AI joint venture launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">SUZHOU, <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">March 31, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0On 26 March,\u00a0Suzhou Pudu Co-Intelligence Technology Company, a joint venture between Xi&#8217;an Jiaotong-<span class=\"xn-org\">Liverpool University<\/span> (XJTLU) and Baidu Group, was launched as <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> first AI-focused joint venture co-founded by Baidu and a university.<\/p>\n<p><b>AI+education: Redefining learning<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Through AI-driven innovation, Pudu Co-Intelligence seeks to transform the whole education value chain, empower industrial evolution and cultivate localised service ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>The company will soon launch the Pudu Co-Intelligence AI Forum, bringing together Baidu&#8217;s chief scientists, XJTLU&#8217;s AI researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders to share their thinking on cutting-edge technologies, AI research, interpretation of relevant policies, and personal experience in industry.<\/p>\n<p>The company will work with local players to integrate AI capabilities into software, intelligent devices, and computing infrastructure, ensuring rapid local response to industry needs that will extend AI&#8217;s benefits to all sectors.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to regular Pudu AI forums and an upcoming white paper, the joint venture aims to launch the following:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The Pudu Co-Intelligence AI Learning Space, which will feature AI-powered teaching hardware and the company&#8217;s large-model training system, offering personalised learning paths, mixed-reality labs, and intelligent evaluation and feedback tools;<\/li>\n<li>The Pudu Co-Intelligence Large Model Research Collaboration Platform, which will combine Baidu&#8217;s generative AI capabilities with XJTLU&#8217;s research scenario insights into a platform to optimise the research cycle, serving as a &#8220;super brain&#8221; for researchers;<\/li>\n<li>The AI+ Professional Certification Programme, to certify the capabilities of academic staff, alumni, and managers in digital transformation; and<\/li>\n<li>The Pudu Co-Intelligence Cup AI innovative application competition, which will be held with local governments and enterprises to connect industrial demand with teaching and research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pudu Co-Intelligence came from an existing cooperation between XJTLU and Baidu, begun in 2023. Early that year, the two jointly established the XJTLU-PaddlePaddle AI Industry Institute and the Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan Large-Scale Model Platform (Suzhou) Innovation Centre. That September, with the support of the government authority at Suzhou Industrial Park, the XJTLU-Baidu Artificial Intelligence Innovation Alliance was launched.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the two parties signed a joint venture agreement. Dr <span class=\"xn-person\">Dou Shen<\/span>, Executive Vice President of Baidu, remarked: &#8220;This joint venture with XJTLU represents Baidu&#8217;s deepening commitment to university-enterprise collaboration in AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Youmin Xi, Executive President of XJTLU, said: &#8220;By blending research and talent development at universities with real-world industrial scenarios, we can accelerate the translation of research into tangible applications, taking advantage of cutting-edge technologies, including AI.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">SUZHOU, <span class=\"xn-location\">China<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">March 31, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0On 26 March,\u00a0Suzhou Pudu Co-Intelligence Technology Company, a joint venture between Xi&#8217;an Jiaotong-<span class=\"xn-org\">Liverpool University<\/span> (XJTLU) and Baidu Group, was launched as <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> first AI-focused joint venture co-founded by Baidu and a university.<\/p>\n<p><b>AI+education: Redefining learning<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Through AI-driven innovation, Pudu Co-Intelligence seeks to transform the whole education value chain, empower industrial evolution and cultivate localised service ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>The company will soon launch the Pudu Co-Intelligence AI Forum, bringing together Baidu&#8217;s chief scientists, XJTLU&#8217;s AI researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders to share their thinking on cutting-edge technologies, AI research, interpretation of relevant policies, and personal experience in industry.<\/p>\n<p>The company will work with local players to integrate AI capabilities into software, intelligent devices, and computing infrastructure, ensuring rapid local response to industry needs that will extend AI&#8217;s benefits to all sectors.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to regular Pudu AI forums and an upcoming white paper, the joint venture aims to launch the following:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The Pudu Co-Intelligence AI Learning Space, which will feature AI-powered teaching hardware and the company&#8217;s large-model training system, offering personalised learning paths, mixed-reality labs, and intelligent evaluation and feedback tools;<\/li>\n<li>The Pudu Co-Intelligence Large Model Research Collaboration Platform, which will combine Baidu&#8217;s generative AI capabilities with XJTLU&#8217;s research scenario insights into a platform to optimise the research cycle, serving as a &#8220;super brain&#8221; for researchers;<\/li>\n<li>The AI+ Professional Certification Programme, to certify the capabilities of academic staff, alumni, and managers in digital transformation; and<\/li>\n<li>The Pudu Co-Intelligence Cup AI innovative application competition, which will be held with local governments and enterprises to connect industrial demand with teaching and research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pudu Co-Intelligence came from an existing cooperation between XJTLU and Baidu, begun in 2023. Early that year, the two jointly established the XJTLU-PaddlePaddle AI Industry Institute and the Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan Large-Scale Model Platform (Suzhou) Innovation Centre. That September, with the support of the government authority at Suzhou Industrial Park, the XJTLU-Baidu Artificial Intelligence Innovation Alliance was launched.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the two parties signed a joint venture agreement. Dr <span class=\"xn-person\">Dou Shen<\/span>, Executive Vice President of Baidu, remarked: &#8220;This joint venture with XJTLU represents Baidu&#8217;s deepening commitment to university-enterprise collaboration in AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Youmin Xi, Executive President of XJTLU, said: &#8220;By blending research and talent development at universities with real-world industrial scenarios, we can accelerate the translation of research into tangible applications, taking advantage of cutting-edge technologies, including AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}