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Baidu, Inc.

A Chinese technology company that runs the country's most-used internet search engine, along with maps, cloud services, and artificial-intelligence products like the Apollo self-driving platform. It was founded in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu, and its name comes from a line in a Song dynasty poem by Xin Qiji that reads "searching for her among the crowd a hundred and thousand times" — a fitting origin for a search company. Baidu also operates the Ernie AI chatbot and a popular online encyclopedia called Baike.