Baidu Advances Agent Portfolio to Embrace the Agent Era, Champions Daily Active Agents as Key Metric
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Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) introduced a new generation of AI agents at Baidu Create 2026 and proposed Daily Active Agents (DAA) as a core industry metric. New products include DuMate, Miaoda app and enterprise editions, Baidu Yijing, and Famou Agent 2.0, supported by a full-stack Baidu AI Cloud and the ERNIE 5.1 foundation model.
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- Famou Agent delivers a 10.21% performance gain in automated port operations
- Famou Agent 2.0 wins 9 of 15 hardest tasks on MLE-Bench
- Miaoda app generates 90% of its own code via the coding agent
- Baidu Yijing digital human platform supports 12 languages with native-level lip-sync
- New full-stack Baidu AI Cloud is tailored for large-scale agent applications
- ERNIE 5.1 ranks #1 among Chinese models on LMArena text and search leaderboards
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- None.
News Market Reaction – BIDU
In the May 13 session, BIDU gained 7.55%, reflecting a notable positive market reaction. Argus tracked a peak move of +4.5% during that session. Argus tracked a trough of -3.5% from its starting point during tracking. Our momentum scanner triggered 64 alerts that day, indicating high trading interest and price volatility. Trading volume was above average at 1.6x the daily average, suggesting increased trading activity.
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Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | 24h Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30 | AGM announcement | Neutral | +4.6% | Notice of annual general meeting and reference to filed 2025 Form 20-F. |
| Apr 23 | Earnings date set | Neutral | -1.4% | Scheduled release and call for Q1 2026 financial results on May 18, 2026. |
| Apr 01 | Ride-hailing expansion | Positive | +0.4% | Launch of Apollo Go fully driverless commercial ride‑hailing service in Dubai. |
| Mar 17 | Annual report filing | Neutral | -0.9% | Filing of Form 20-F and Hong Kong Annual Report for fiscal year 2025. |
| Mar 11 | AI cloud product | Positive | -0.3% | Launch of DuClaw zero-deployment access service for OpenClaw agent platform. |
24h Move is the share-price change in the day after each event; other market factors may also have contributed.
Recent routine corporate and product updates have generally produced modest single-digit price moves, with no consistent pattern of strong rallies or selloffs.
Over the past six months, Baidu’s news flow has centered on routine corporate actions and product expansion. Announcements included an AGM notice for June 5, 2026, an upcoming Q1 2026 earnings release on May 18, 2026, international expansion of Apollo Go driverless ride‑hailing in Dubai, the Form 20-F annual report for 2025, and the launch of DuClaw, an AI Cloud service priced at RMB 17.8/month. Price reactions to these items were mostly limited to low single‑digit percentage moves, providing a context of relatively measured responses to prior developments.
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- Baidu Co-founder and CEO Robin Li proposed Daily Active Agents (DAA) as the defining metric as the industry enters the agent era.
- The company also unveiled a series of updates to its agent portfolio, including the general-purpose agent DuMate, the app and enterprise edition of the coding agent Miaoda, the upgraded digital human platform Baidu Yijing, and the upgraded self-evolving agent Famou Agent 2.0.
- The new full-stack AI Cloud is purpose-built for large-scale agent applications, set to empower organizations to harness AI at scale.
At Create 2026, Baidu Co-founder and CEO Robin Li made the case that the right metric for measuring success in the AI industry is Daily Active Agents (DAA) — a new index he proposed as the agent era's equivalent of the mobile internet's Daily Active Users (DAU).
Li contended that tokens represent cost, not value, measuring input rather than output. "To measure the health of a platform or ecosystem, we should pay closer attention to DAA — the number of agents actively working and delivering results," he said. Li also predicted that global DAA could eventually surpass 10 billion.
Li put forward what he called an "AI evolution theory," describing a three-layered transformation now underway: agents evolving from passive responders to autonomous executors that continuously learn from their environment; individuals evolving from ordinary users into super individuals who learn to coexist with AI; and enterprises evolving from human-to-human collaboration into mixed human-agent formations that operate as unified, super-organizations.
DuMate: General-Purpose Agent That Redefines What AI Can Do
At Create 2026, Baidu launched the mobile edition of its general-purpose agent DuMate. With full real-time synchronization between mobile and PC, users can now initiate tasks anytime, anywhere, with 24/7 availability. Since its MVP release in March, DuMate has iterated rapidly and is now capable of reading screens, operating software, processing files, and connecting business systems end-to-end. DuMate has achieved state-of-the-art performance across multiple international agent benchmarks. As a general-purpose agent, DuMate is also a unified gateway, according to Li. "It seamlessly integrates Baidu Search AI API, Miaoda coding agent, and Famou Agent, allowing users to collaboratively perform a range of tasks including search, coding, deep research, data analysis, and application creation," Li said.
Miaoda & MeDo: Coding Agent That Makes Software "Disposable"
Miaoda marked another highlight of the event, with the launch of its app and enterprise edition. Miaoda is a coding agent that empowers anyone to bring their ideas to life without writing a single line of code. The new Miaoda app brings professional-grade vibe coding to mobile, with
Baidu Yijing: Digital Human Is Agent You Can See and Trust
Baidu Yijing, rebranded from the Huiboxing platform, is a full-scenario digital human platform spanning live streaming, video production, and real-time interactive experiences, capable of generating highly interactive content ranging from minutes to several hours in length. "A digital human is simply an agent you can see," Li said. "Equipped with voice, facial expressions, and gestures, a digital human is more expressive and more trustworthy." Baidu Yijing is also taking its digital human capabilities global by launching an international edition that enables merchants and creators to easily generate digital human content, from e-commerce livestreams to digital human videos and beyond. Supporting the platform are three agent capabilities — script writing, video production, and intelligent editing — along with deep localization from the ground up. The platform supports 12 languages with native-level lip-sync accuracy and localized AI-powered content creation, helping merchants run round-the-clock digital human livestreams across multiple global markets.
Reflecting on the above products, Li described a fundamental shift in the basic unit of productive capacity: where it was once a team, it is now a super individual. In the agent era, every developer is simultaneously a builder, founder, and creator.
Famou Agent 2.0: Agent That Self-Verifies and Closes the Loop Can Evolve Without Limit
Baidu's self-evolving agent Famou was upgraded to version 2.0 at Create 2026. A self-evolving agent like Famou is designed to address complex operational challenges across industries and help enterprises unlock meaningful productivity gains. The 2.0 version expands direct accessibility to domain experts across three high-value use cases: production scheduling, process optimization, and logistics planning. Commenting on Famou, Li noted that agents capable of self-verification and closed-loop execution could shift efficiency gains from linear to exponential. At one of the world's most sophisticated automated ports, for instance, Famou Agent autonomously identifies optimal solutions across berth scheduling, equipment allocation, and cargo prioritization, delivering a
New Full-Stack AI Cloud: The Infrastructure Behind Agents at Scale
Underpinning these agent applications is a series of infrastructure upgrades announced at the same event. Baidu AI Cloud announced a comprehensive upgrade, repositioning itself as a new full-stack AI cloud purpose-built for large-scale agent applications, with upgrades spanning Agent Infra and AI Infra. A dedicated cluster powered by Baidu's proprietary Kunlunxin AI chip has supported the training of a key model in the ERNIE 5.1 series. Earlier in May, Baidu released ERNIE 5.1, its latest foundation model, which ranked #1 among Chinese models on LMArena's text and search leaderboards.
About Baidu
Founded in 2000, Baidu's mission is to make the complicated world simpler through technology. Baidu is a leading AI company with strong internet foundation, trading on the NASDAQ under "BIDU" and HKEX under "9888." One Baidu ADS represents eight Class A ordinary shares.
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