Baidu APP Releases Four Major AI Upgrades, Search AI API as Low as 4.9 Yuan per Thousand Calls

Tingyu 2026-10-30 16:50:44

Source: QbitAI

On October 30, Baidu APP held a product upgrade briefing in Beijing. Baidu Search has achieved recursive self-evolution and fully upgraded its Search AI API, with a minimum price of only 4.9 yuan per thousand calls during the event, lower than the DeepSeek Search API. At the same time, it rolled out major upgrades across the search box, AI camera, GUI visualization, AI interactive applications and other directions, bringing users a smarter, more intelligent and more fun experience.

Search is moving from "one question, one answer" to "one task, one delivery." Complex questions can be handed to Search for multi-step lookup and organization, directly returning verified and summarized conclusions; high-frequency tasks can be delivered as results directly, compressing "search—jump—operate" into the shortest path; and matters requiring long-term attention are continuously tracked after user confirmation, with proactive alerts when changes are detected.

At present, this capability covers more than 170 tool scenarios. When parents search for school admission information, Search combines previously recorded children's grades, home address and boarding preferences, compares commuting, tuition and enrollment policies together, and gives more specific school-choice advice; and when a user plans a Sanya itinerary for the Spring Festival, Search not only generates a complete five-day itinerary and budget, but also proactively alerts when hotel prices drop, saving 2,100 yuan on the five-night trip.

In terms of the AI camera, Baidu addresses the three breakpoints of traditional photo-based object recognition—"can't see it all, can't explain it clearly, can't ask deeply"—so that the camera moves from "freeze-frame" to "flow." The upgraded camera supports simultaneous recognition of multiple targets and dynamic tracking: multiple plants and multiple musical instruments in the frame can be recognized all at once, and recognition labels can steadily follow a jumping monkey or a swimming school of fish. Users no longer need to laboriously describe the target—one tap or one circle enables precise questioning—and after taking a photo they can seamlessly switch into real-time conversation, following their curiosity to ask layer by layer, moving from "knowing what" to "knowing why." At the same time, the AI camera supports real-time conversation in 9 dialects, including Northeastern Mandarin, Sichuanese, Cantonese and Changsha dialect, bringing "talking with the world through the camera" into reality.

In terms of GUI, the GUI scenario coverage of the search page has increased 5-fold, connecting authoritative resource data of more than 5 billion from government affairs, livelihood, the central bank and others, covering more than 20 industries. Relying on AI intelligent visualization and professional chart templates, it makes complex data "visible, comparable and interactive," and opens up the ecosystem so that authoritative and professional data institutions and partners can all join.

In terms of AI interactive applications, Baidu APP released AI interactive dramas and AI interactive applications, so that users change from "watching by scrolling" to "playing hands-on": they can choose the plot direction in interactive dramas, and in interactive applications they can operate personally and receive feedback, with content forms moving from one-way consumption to participatory co-creation. The simultaneously launched "Baidu AI Future Creation League" extends an olive branch to interactive content creators with millions in cash incentives and hundreds of millions in traffic support.

It is worth noting that Baidu also fully upgraded the Search AI API this time, with a limited-time minimum price of 4.9 yuan per thousand queries, lower than the price of DeepSeek's Search API.

The high cost-effectiveness and good results benefit from its AI-native four-layer architecture: the content layer gathers more than 80 languages worldwide and a hundred-billion-level high-quality index, with the data credibility rate increased by more than 50%; the engine layer realizes multi-Agent collaborative self-evolution through an online feedback loop—Baidu Search deposits every real retrieval and user feedback as training signals, which continuously flow back through the "retrieval—feedback—retraining" loop, driving recursive self-evolution of the model and enabling continuous iterative upgrades without manual intervention, with overall iteration efficiency improved by more than 80%; the architecture layer supports high concurrency and low latency, with high-quality enterprise-level service assurance capabilities; and the application layer supports full-scheme access via API, MCP and Skill, with Ernie Assistant improving results by 20% after integration.

Baidu APP redefines the competitive dimension of AI applications with "accurate search, good answers and deliverable results," bringing users a smarter, more intelligent and more fun experience.