On August 20, Baidu announced during its second-quarter earnings call that its intelligent cloud business witnessed a robust 27% year-over-year growth in revenue, accompanied by a similar increase in Non-GAAP operating profit. Baidu's founder, Robin Li, emphasized that the company's distinctive end-to-end, four-tier AI architecture stands as a pivotal competitive advantage, with its comprehensive AI capabilities fueling consistent expansion in the intelligent cloud sector. Furthermore, the recent IDC report titled "China AI Public Cloud Service Market Share, 2024" underscores Baidu Intelligent Cloud's dominance, having secured the top spot in China's AI public cloud service market for six straight years and maintaining a leading position in the large model platform market.