Baidu vs Microsoft

Baidu's driverless ride-hailing service, operating in Chinese cities under the name Luobo Kuaipao.

Baidu's consumer assistant for chat, writing and image generation, built on the ERNIE models.

Remote identity-authentication API combining ID-card OCR, liveness detection resistant to deepfakes/3D masks/synthetic faces, and facial comparison against authoritative government databases; mobile SDK, H5 and cloud access.

Image-recognition API family identifying over 100,000 object/scene types, plus specialised plant (20,000+ species), animal (8,000+ species), vehicle and logo (20,000+ brand) recognition, via public cloud or private deployment.

OCR service recognizing printed/handwritten documents, images, tables, stamps and QR codes across 20+ languages, via public cloud API, offline SDK or private deployment.

AI coding assistant, marketed in Chinese as Wenxin Kuaima, that generates code, unit tests and comments and answers programming questions through IDE plugins.

Baidu's open-source deep learning framework for building, training and deploying machine learning and large models, anchoring an ecosystem that includes AI Studio, EasyDL and EasyEdge.

Baidu's open autonomous-driving developer platform offering cloud simulation, a fleet R&D cloud, high-precision mapping and calibration services and the D-KIT hardware development kit, distinct from the Apollo Go robotaxi service.

Data intelligence platform that converts unstructured enterprise data into agent-comprehensible formats and business-ontology models, with a Data Agent for supply-chain, retail, LLM-training, autonomous-driving and RAG use cases.

Integrated development environment for building conversational bots, integrating with Microsoft Copilot Studio for low-code bot building.

AI assistant embedded in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams that grounds its answers in a customer's own business data and ships with pre-built agents.

Microsoft's assistant for chat, search and work inside Windows and the Microsoft 365 apps.

Security-operations assistant that summarises threat signals and helps analysts detect, investigate and respond to incidents in natural language.

Image-recognition service for building custom image classification and object-detection models; distinct from the general-purpose Azure AI Vision service.

Embeddable reading-comprehension tool that improves text readability for users of all ages and abilities.

Extracts insights from video and audio — transcription, face/object detection, sentiment, topics — via API.

Multimodal Azure AI service that extracts structured insights from unstructured content (documents, images, audio, video) into custom-defined schemas.

Extracts text, structure and key-value pairs from documents (invoices, receipts, forms, ID cards) via prebuilt and custom models.

NLP service for sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, entity recognition, summarization, question answering and conversational language understanding.

End-to-end platform for building, training, deploying and managing machine-learning models at enterprise scale.

Hosted access to OpenAI's GPT, embedding and image models with Azure enterprise security, networking and compliance, under Microsoft Foundry's current branding.

Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech translation and speaker recognition as an Azure API service.

Real-time and batch text translation API supporting 100+ languages.

Image analysis, OCR, spatial analysis and face detection as an Azure API service.

Detects harmful text/image content (hate, violence, sexual, self-harm) for generative-AI applications, billed per text/image record analyzed.

Managed service for building, deploying and orchestrating enterprise AI agents with tool calling, state management and multi-turn conversations.

Context-engineering platform giving AI agents agentic retrieval across enterprise data sources (SharePoint, Blob Storage, the web) with permission-aware security.

Model catalog (11,000+ models from Azure, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Hugging Face and others) with managed-compute and serverless per-token deployment.

AI assistant for clinicians that combines ambient conversation capture, clinical documentation and voice-driven EHR/order workflows into one product.

Evaluation, production monitoring and distributed tracing for generative-AI applications, billed by consumption per the Foundry observability pricing page.

Coding assistant and agent inside the editor, the CLI and GitHub itself.

Azure's platform for building, evaluating and deploying model-based applications and agents.