At the 2025 Intelligent Economy Forum, Shen Doup, Executive Vice President of Baidu Group, announced that Baidu Smart Cloud had launched a new large model specifically for the financial industry called Qianfan Huijin. This move marks Baidu's deep engagement in the financial sector with the aim of providing more precise and efficient artificial intelligence solutions to financial institutions.
Shen Doup pointed out that currently, 65% of central enterprises have chosen to collaborate with Baidu Smart Cloud, reflecting the strong demand for intelligent cloud technology in the market. Building industry-specific large models is a complex process that requires not only a strong technical foundation but also a vast amount of industry-specific data and knowledge. To meet the high requirements of the financial industry for accuracy and real-time performance, Baidu extracted hundreds of billions of tokens from massive financial data, underwent deep cleaning and optimization, ensuring the professionalism and reliability of the model.
In the financial industry, general-purpose large models often fail to meet the needs due to the lack of specialized financial corpus for training, leading to inaccurate responses or errors. Shen Doup stated that models built based on industry-specific corpora can demonstrate better performance at the same parameter scale. This also allows companies to further customize proprietary models, enhancing application effectiveness and reducing costs.
Moreover, Shen Doup emphasized that future competition will revolve around intelligent agents. With the development of AI technology, companies will focus more on how to build intelligent agents to enhance autonomous decision-making capabilities and task processing efficiency. For instance, the "Marketing Power Supply Solution Intelligent Agent" jointly developed by Baidu and State Grid can automatically identify user needs and generate power supply plans, significantly improving service efficiency.
In this context, Baidu Smart Cloud has also launched intelligent agent solutions for different industries. Companies can quickly integrate these into their own business systems with minimal customization. Shen Doup mentioned that this lightweight customizable intelligent agent is becoming a shortcut for the industrialization of large models. In the future, Baidu will continue to optimize models and computing power, introducing more efficient solutions to help businesses accelerate their digital transformation journey.