Baidu will combine the Qualcomm Snapdragon Areas XR developer platform into its XiRang metaverse platform
Chinese language web large Baidu introduced this week on social media that it has partnered with Qualcomm introduced on prolonged actuality (XR) and metaverse applied sciences to create a brand new metaverse platform and providers. Based on Chinese language information businesses, Baidu acknowledged non-binding memorandum of understanding additionally contains joint work round generative AI.
Whereas few particulars have been made public, Baidu shared that the plan is to mix its cloud and AI applied sciences with different platforms to develop functions for a wide range of industries, together with citing tourism, training and sports activities. The corporate added, particularly, that by integrating Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Areas XR developer platform and associated XR applied sciences into its XiRang metaverse platform, will probably be in a position to construct XR functions and content material extra shortly.
On the 2017 Snapdragon Expertise Summit, the pair introduced a collaboration to optimize Baidu’s DuerOS conversational AI system for smartphones on the Qualcomm Snapdragon Cellular Platform to assist a whole AI voice and good assistant answer for international smartphone and IoT units.
As of 2020, Baidu has additionally been working with Intel on a collection of collaborations that contact on AI, 5G, information middle and cloud computing infrastructure. “In China, a very powerful factor for growing an business ecosystem is to really take root within the native market and its customers’ wants,” Rui Wang, Intel vp within the gross sales and advertising group and PRC nation supervisor, stated on the time. “With the full-speed improvement of ‘new infrastructure’ and 5G, China has entered the stage of accelerated improvement of the economic web.”
