Baidu App announces four AI upgrades and an updated Search AI API

What happened

Baidu App announced four AI upgrades on October 30, saying its search now supports recursive self-improvement and its upgraded Search AI API starts at 4.9 yuan/1,000 calls during the promotion. Wenxin Assistant delivers outputs and tracks ongoing tasks across more than 170 scenarios, while AI Lens adds simultaneous recognition of multiple targets, dynamic tracking, and real-time conversation in 9 dialects. Search results expand GUI interaction scenarios fivefold, alongside newly launched AI interactive dramas and applications.

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The story so far

Baidu announced four AI upgrades to Baidu App, covering search, AI Lens, graphical interface interactions and interactive applications, alongside an updated Search AI API with promotional pricing starting at 4.9 yuan per 1,000 calls. Baidu said its search now supports recursive self-improvement and that Wenxin Assistant can deliver outputs and track ongoing tasks across more than 170 scenarios. AI Lens adds simultaneous recognition of multiple targets, dynamic tracking and real-time conversation in 9 dialects. The company also said it expanded the range of graphical interface interaction scenarios in search results fivefold and launched AI interactive dramas and applications.