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May 27, 2026 12:00 PM

Baidu's AI-driven Business Generates 50%+ Of Q1 Revenue

Baidu Inc.'s (NASDAQ:BIDU) (9888.HK) revenue from its general business grew 2% year-on-year to 26 billion yuan ($3.82 billion) in the first quarter, as its core AI-driven business accounted for more than half of the total for the first time, according to its results released on May 18. AI-related revenue rose 49% during the quarter to 13.6 billion yuan, making up 52% of total general business revenue.

The company's non-GAAP income totaled 4.3 billion yuan, compared with 6.5 billion yuan a year earlier.

During the quarter, the company's AI Cloud Infra business, which has been upgraded for large-scale agent-based applications, surged 79% to 8.8 billion yuan, with GPU cloud ...