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Baidu ERNIE unit
The Baidu ERNIE unit is the organization inside Baidu that develops the ERNIE large language models and the Ernie Bot assistant, launched publicly in 2023.
Baidu Kunlunxin (昆仑芯)
Baidu Kunlunxin (昆仑芯) is a Chinese AI accelerator line built on Baidu's in-house XPU architecture, which became an independent company in 2021 and runs Baidu's search and Xiaodu fleets.
Baidu Netdisk
Baidu Netdisk (百度网盘), also called Baidu Pan, is a personal cloud storage service from the Chinese company Baidu, with paid membership tiers and up to 2 TB of space.
Baidu open-source pivot
The Baidu open-source pivot was Baidu's 2025 reversal from defending proprietary ERNIE models to open release, open-sourcing Ernie 4.5 in June 2025 after DeepSeek's breakthrough.
Baidyanath Ram
Baidyanath Ram is an Indian politician from Jharkhand and a Jharkhand Mukti Morcha member, elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2026 after three terms as a Latehar assembly member.
Baidyanath Temple (बैद्यनाथ मंदिर)
Baidyanath Temple, also known as Baba Baidyanath Dham, is a Hindu temple of Shiva in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India, counted among the twelve Jyotirlingas and the 51 Shakti Peethas.
Baie d'Ad-Dakhla
Baie d'Ad-Dakhla (Dakhla Bay) is a 37 km Ramsar wetland (site 1470, 2005) on Morocco's Atlantic Sahara, the country's second most important waterbird wintering site, with Zostera noltii beds and over 120 mollusc species.
Baie de Khnifiss
Baie de Khnifiss (Khnifiss/Khenifiss lagoon) is a 26,310-ha Ramsar site (no. 209, designated 1980) on Morocco's southern Atlantic coast: the country's largest Atlantic lagoon, a major migratory bird stopover, and part of Khenifiss National Park.
Baie-Comeau
Baie-Comeau, Quebec town on the Côte-Nord founded by Chicago Tribune owner Colonel Robert R. McCormick; incorporated 20 May 1937 around a newsprint mill, merged with Hauterive in 1982, about 21,750 inhabitants.
Baihe Dihuang Tang
百合地黄汤 (Baihe Dihuang Tang, Lily Bulb and Rehmannia Decoction), a classical Chinese medicine formula from Zhang Zhongjing's Jin Gui Yaolue, made of lily bulb and fresh Rehmannia juice to treat baihe disease (yin deficiency internal heat); now studied for depression, anxiety, and insomnia.
Baihetan hydroelectric plant
The Baihetan hydroelectric plant (白鹤滩水电站) is a 16 GW hydropower station on the Jinsha River between Sichuan and Yunnan, China, the world's second largest after Three Gorges.
Baihu Jia Renshen Tang
白虎加人参汤 (Baihu Jia Renshen Tang, White Tiger Decoction plus Ginseng), a Shanghan Lun formula of gypsum, zhimu, licorice, rice, and ginseng for qi-and-fluid injury with intense heat; studied in type 2 diabetes and sold as a Japanese kampo extract.
Baihua
Baihua (白話), or vernacular Chinese, is the written form of Chinese based on the spoken language; it replaced classical Chinese after the May Fourth movement of the late 1910s.
Baijayant Panda
Baijayant "Jay" Panda, born 1964, is an Indian BJP politician and National Vice-President who has represented Kendrapara, Odisha, in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after earlier terms with the Biju Janata Dal.
Baiji (白𬶨豚)
Baiji (白𬶨豚), Lipotes vexillifer, the Yangtze River dolphin of China, declared functionally extinct after a 2006 range-wide survey; IUCN lists it Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct), the first human-caused cetacean extinction.
Baiji Thermal power station
Baiji Thermal power station (محطة كهرباء بيجي الحرارية) is a mothballed fuel-oil-fired power plant in Baiji, Iraq, commissioned in 1983 with a 1,320 MW capacity.
Baijiu (白酒)
Baijiu (白酒) is China's traditional distilled grain spirit, made by solid-state fermentation with qu starter cultures and classified into aroma types (strong, sauce, light, rice), with strong-aroma baijiu holding about 70% of production.
Baiju Bawra (बैजू बावरा)
Baiju Bawra (बैजू बावरा) is Vijay Bhatt's 1952 Hindi musical drama for Prakash Pictures, starring Bharat Bhushan, Meena Kumari, and Surendra, with Naushad's raga-based score, a 100-week Bombay run, and the first Filmfare Best Actress Award.
Baiju Bhatt
Baiju Bhatt is an American technology founder who co-founded the brokerage company Robinhood Markets with Vladimir Tenev in 2013, serving as co-CEO and co-President until November 2020.
Baiju Dharmajan
Baiju Dharmajan is an Indian guitarist from Kerala, best known as the longtime lead guitarist of the rock band Motherjane, whose sound fuses South Indian classical music with rock.
Baiju Noyan
Baiju Noyan, also known as Baichu, was a Mongol general and military governor who commanded the Mongol forces in northwestern Iran and Anatolia from 1242 to 1259.
Baikal (microprocessor)
Baikal is a family of Russian microprocessors and systems-on-a-chip developed by Baikal Electronics since 2012, spanning embedded, workstation, and server chips on MIPS, Arm, and RISC-V.
Baikal Amur Mainline
The Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM; Байкало-Амурская магистраль) is a railway running north of the Trans-Siberian Railway, launched as a Soviet project in 1974 and proclaimed complete in 1984.
Baikal Rift Zone
The Baikal Rift Zone is the largest active continental rift system in Eurasia, a roughly 2,000 km network of basins in southeastern Siberia that contains Lake Baikal and still opens a few millimeters per year.
Baikal seal (нерпа)
Baikal seal (нерпа, Pusa sibirica), the only exclusively freshwater pinniped, endemic to Lake Baikal, Siberia. Ringed seal relative, isolated ~0.4 Mya; 82,500–115,000 seals, IUCN Least Concern; hunted by humans for 9,000 years.
Baikal Zapovedny Visit Centre
Baikal Zapovedny Visit Centre (Визит-центр «Байкал заповедный») is the visitor center of Baikal State Nature Reserve in Tankhoy, Buryatia, opened 11 January 2017; interactive Baikal expositions, sable enclosure, and eco-technologies.
Baikal-GVD
The Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope, known as Baikal-GVD, is a Cherenkov neutrino telescope in Lake Baikal, Russia, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, taking data since 2015 and expanding yearly.
Baikalskyi Biosphere Reserve
Baikalskyi Biosphere Reserve (Байкальский заповедник), designated 1986, is a 453,846 ha UNESCO MAB site on Lake Baikal's southern shore in Buryatia, Russia, centered on the 1969 Baikalsky zapovednik in the Khamar-Daban mountains.
Baikang Biotech
Baikang Biotech (Nanjing Baikang Biotechnology Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese supplier of antigens, antibodies, enzymes, and nucleotide raw materials for diagnostics, founded in Nanjing in 2019.
Baiken
Baiken (梅喧) is a recurring Guilty Gear fighting game character by Arc System Works: a wandering samurai survivor of destroyed Japan seeking revenge on That Man, debuting hidden in 1998 and joining Strive as DLC in 2022.