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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.

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.