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Bai Pu
Bai Pu (白樸), born 1226, was a Chinese playwright and ci poet, one of the Four Masters of Yuan qu, known for the play Rain on the Wutong Tree.
Bai Qi
Bai Qi (白起), also known as Gongsun Qi, was a general of Qin under King Zhaoxiang, known for burying alive 400,000 surrendered Zhao soldiers at Changping.
Bai Qi's forced suicide
Bai Qi's forced suicide (白起赐死) was the death of the Qin general Bai Qi, ordered by King Zhaoxiang to kill himself at Duyou in 257 BC.
Bai tribe (White Tribe)
The Bai tribe (白部) was a fourth-century Xianbei tribal group recorded in the Wei shu under a grand chief who was executed for missing a sacrifice at Shengle.
Bai Yanhu
Bai Yanhu (白彦虎) was a Hui Muslim rebel leader from Shaanxi active in the 1862–1877 rising, who fled through Xinjiang into Russian territory and died in exile.
Bai Ying
Bai Ying (c. 1363–1419) was a Shandong canal foreman who supplied the plan for the 1411 Ming restoration of the Grand Canal, keeping it navigable for over 500 years.
Bai Yuanlong
Bai Yuanlong (白元龙), born 1980 in Nanjing, is a Chinese supply-chain entrepreneur who founded Huiyuan Supply Chain and has chaired Nanjing Weigang Dairy since 2016.
Bai Yuchan
Bai Yuchan (白玉蟾), born Ge Changgeng, was a Southern Song Daoist master honored as the fifth patriarch of the Southern Lineage of internal alchemy and regarded as its effective founder.
Baía das Gatas Festival
The Baía das Gatas Festival, also known as Festival de Música da Baía das Gatas, is Cape Verde's largest music festival, held since 1984 on São Vicente.
Baía de São Marcos
Baía de São Marcos (São Marcos Bay) is a macrotidal estuarine complex in Maranhão, Brazil, part of the Golfão Maranhense near São Luís, with semidiurnal tides over 7 m, currents to 3 m/s, and a major iron-ore port complex.
Baia dos Juncos Surf Zone
Baia dos Juncos Surf Zone (Baía dos Juncos) is a regulated surfing area at Fajã da Areia, São Vicente, Madeira: a reef-rocky, left-and-right break of 0.5–2 m waves, extremely consistent year-round, with a 620 m promenade and surf schools.
Baiae
Baiae (Baia), Roman luxury spa resort in the Campi Flegrei on the Gulf of Naples near Bacoli; famed for thermal baths and elite villas, now partly submerged 5–13 m deep by bradyseism and protected as the Submerged Archaeological Park of Baia.
BAIAP2
BAIAP2 (IRSp53) is a human gene on 17q25.3 encoding an I-BAR domain adaptor protein that links membrane curvature to actin, regulates dendritic spines and NMDA receptors, and is implicated in autism, schizophrenia, ADHD, depression, and epileptic encephalopathy.
Baiba Braže
Baiba Braže, Latvian career diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia since 19 April 2024; formerly NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy (2020-2023) and ambassador to the UK, Netherlands, and Indonesia.
Baibars
Baibars (الظاهر بيبرس) was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, reigning from 1260 to 1277 after a victory over the Mongols at Ain Jalut.
BaiBu (百布)
BaiBu (百布) is a Guangzhou-based B2B trading platform for finished textile fabrics, founded by Zhao Zhenhong, which had raised over USD 410 million by 2021.
BAIC Group (北京汽车集团有限公司)
BAIC Group, also known as Beijing Automotive Group Co., Ltd., is a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Beijing with roots in the 1958 Beijing Automobile Factory.
BAIC New Energy (北京新能源汽车股份有限公司)
BAIC New Energy (北京新能源汽车股份有限公司, BAIC BJEV) is a Chinese manufacturer of pure electric passenger cars under the ARCFOX and Beijing Auto brands, controlled by BAIC BluePark.
Baicalein
Baicalein is a plant flavone, the aglycone of baicalin, found principally in the roots of Scutellaria baicalensis (Chinese skullcap) and studied for anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anticancer effects.
Baicalin
Baicalin is the main flavonoid extracted from the roots of Chinese skullcap, a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine, studied for anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and antiviral effects despite low oral bioavailability.
Baicao Garden
Baicao Garden (百草园) is the roughly 2,000-square-meter Zhou family vegetable garden behind Lu Xun's former home in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, immortalized in his essay "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Study" and now a free tourist site.
Baicheng, Jilin
Baicheng (白城) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Jilin, China, at the junction of Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Inner Mongolia. Population about 2.03 million, area 25,758.73 km², known for the Xianghai and Momoge wetlands and cranes.
Baichuan (百川) (model family)
Baichuan (百川) is a family of large language models released by the Chinese startup Baichuan Intelligence, founded by Sogou's Wang Xiaochuan, starting with the open-weight Baichuan-7B in June 2023.
Baichuan (百川智能)
Baichuan (百川智能, Baichuan Intelligence), also called Baichuan AI, is a Beijing AI company founded in April 2023 by former Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochuan that develops large language models.
Baichuan pivot to medical AI
The Baichuan pivot to medical AI is the 2026 decision by Baichuan Intelligence (百川智能), founded by Wang Xiaochuan, to focus exclusively on medical AI, launching the clinical model Baichuan-M4.
Baidehisha Vilasa
Baidehisha Vilasa (ବୈଦେହୀଶ ବିଳାସ) is a seventeenth-century Odia kavya by Upendra Bhanja, a landmark of Odia literature that retells the Ramayana with erotic sentiment at its center.
Baidicheng site
Baidicheng site (白帝城遗址), a Song–Mongol war mountain-fortress site at the Qutang Gorge west entrance, Fengjie, Chongqing; Eastern Han origins, Southern Song walls of 1255–1267, China's earliest iron fire-bombs, national heritage status 2019.
Baidu (百度)
Baidu is a Chinese technology company headquartered in Beijing that operates one of China's leading search engines and has repositioned itself as an artificial intelligence company.
Baidu Apollo Go
Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) is Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing service, offering fully driverless trips to paying passengers in China, the Middle East, and testing in Europe since 2021.
Baidu Create
Baidu Create, also called the Baidu AI Developer Conference (百度AI开发者大会), is Baidu's annual flagship AI developer conference, first held in Beijing in 2017, where it launches products like DuerOS, Apollo, and ERNIE models.