Overview
Baidu is a Chinese technology company with major investments in AI research, cloud infrastructure, and autonomous driving. Released unlimited-ocr open-weight document parsing model in June 2026.
Recent Developments
- 2026-06: unlimited-ocr with reference-sliding-window-attention — 93%+ OmniDocBench, constant KV cache for multi-page OCR (2026-07-06-baidu-unlimited-ocr-reference-sliding-window)
- 2026-07-03: Participant in kling-ai funding round at $18B post-money valuation (2026-07-03-kling-ai-3-billion-funding)
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- document-processing
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