On October 7, the reporter learned that Baidu announced a new round of cadre rotation: From now on, Dr. Li Ying, vice president of Baidu Group and chief information officer (CIO) of Baidu Group, will serve as the CEO of Xiaodu Technology and report directly to Robin Li, chairman and CEO of the group.

According to the data, Li Ying joined Baidu in 2004, has led natural language processing, web search relevance, spider, composite search, recommendation and personalization, knowledge graph, AI technology ecology, Baidu map and other businesses, with more than 30 patents, has won the first prize of science and technology progress of the Chinese Society of Electronics. During her tenure as the CIO of Baidu Group, Li Ying created an intelligent work platform with AI and knowledge management as the core, making important contributions to Baidu's AI basic technology construction and product application.
Insiders believe that this cadre adjustment means that small degree will undertake more future-oriented missions and support small degree growth with a large model. It is reported that Li Ying is Baidu's endogenous training of senior management talents, belongs to the industry's rare understanding of technology, and understand the product, and has a wealth of management experience of compound talents. Recently, Li Ying has successfully led the reconstruction of products such as Flow based on Wenxin's large model within Baidu. Her joining will help further play the advantages of Baidu AI, better empower Xiaodu with Baidu's leading large model capabilities, and lead Xiaodu to achieve greater development in the era of large models.
It is reported that the small degree of the original CEO Jingkun will resign for personal reasons.