China’s largest search engine provider will add capacity for 150 employees, the company said in a statement. Baidu has about 200 people at its existing site in Sunnyvale, California.
The two offices will be a mile apart.
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Baidu has prioritised artificial intelligence as a way of generating new revenue and reclaiming ground lost to Chinese competitors such as Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group Holding The company has about 1,300 engineers working on the technology across sites in China and the US.
Baidu suffered a blow earlier this week when Andrew Ng, a leading AI researcher, said he would be stepping down from his role as chief scientist and head of the Sunnyvale office. Ya-qin Zhang, a former head of Microsoft Corp’s Asian research and development operations and now chairman of Baidu USA, will lead the two Silicon Valley sites, the company said.
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