{"id":151539,"date":"2026-05-18T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151539"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:57:52","slug":"baidu-says-ai-now-primary-business-driver-despite-2-drop-in-first-quarter-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151539","title":{"rendered":"Baidu says AI now primary business driver despite 2% drop in first-quarter revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostBaidu has reached a historic milestone as its AI businesses surged to become its primary revenue driver in the first quarter, despite a 2 per cent dip in overall income, the Chinese tech giant said on Monday.<br \/>\nThe company\u2019s artificial intelligence-related businesses, including AI cloud, AI applications and AI marketing services, saw revenue grow to 13.6 billion yuan, a 49 per cent year-on-year increase.<br \/>\n\u201cAI-powered business exceeded half of Baidu general business revenue for the first time,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3353928\/baidu-says-ai-now-primary-revenue-driver-despite-2-drop-first-quarter-revenue?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostBaidu has reached a historic milestone as its AI businesses surged to become its primary revenue driver in the first quarter, despite a 2&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}