Baidu Cloud Disk Announces Homepage Redesign Introducing Youthful Feel with UI Visuals and Large Model Intelligent Assistant


The competition in China's generative AI sector has entered a new phase focused on user acquisition. "Baidu Wenxin Yanyi" has exceeded 200 million monthly active users, becoming the first domestic large model to enter the 200 million club. "Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen" achieved over 100 million monthly active users within two months of launch, showing rapid growth. Baidu has adopted an "all-domain integration" strategy, fully embedding AI capabilities into core products such as search, accelerating application implementation.
The Stepwise Star open-source multimodal vision-language model Step3-VL-10B excels in multiple benchmark tests with only 10B parameters, solving the problem of insufficient intelligence in small models. The model achieves the best performance in its scale in visual perception, logical reasoning, and math competitions, even surpassing open-source and closed-source flagship models that are 10 to 20 times larger in size.
NVIDIA is accused of attempting to obtain 500TB of e-book data from the pirated website Anna Archive for AI training, triggering a collective lawsuit by authors, who criticize it for infringing copyrights and using extreme competitive methods.
Zadarma launched a new AI voice assistant on January 20, 2026, providing 24/7 multilingual, highly realistic call answering and customer service for enterprises. The assistant can naturally answer incoming calls, understand complex requests, and provide accurate information based on the company's knowledge base. It can also transfer calls to human agents when needed, improving service efficiency and customer satisfaction. It is deeply integrated with Zadarma's cloud PBX and CRM platforms.
Baidu's Wenshin Assistant has exceeded 200 million monthly active users, and is now known as one of the three major AI entry points in China, alongside Douban and Tongyi Qianwen. It features deep thinking and long-term memory capabilities, offering personalized recommendations based on context. Its functions cover multi-modal services such as video calls, AI creation, and photo-based Q&A, and it upgrades from information processing to intelligent services through the MCP tool.