Baidu vs Yandex

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.

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.