Baidu and Meituan and more than ten other enterprises are interconnected and cooperate at the three levels of traffic, technology and service ecology

Blue Whale TMT Channel, January 17, today, Baidu and Meituan, Xiaohongshu, SF, Ctrip, Zhihu, Tongcheng, Maoyan, 58 Tongcheng and other more than ten enterprises announced the opening of in-depth interconnection cooperation, will take the Spring Festival as the starting point to carry out interconnection cooperation at the three levels of traffic, technology and service ecology. At present, more than ten companies have launched smart mini programs in Baidu App, and Baidu will open tens of billions of traffic to interconnection partners during this year's "Good Luck China Year" event.

The relevant person in charge of Baidu App said that the interconnection of more than a dozen Internet companies can effectively improve the user experience, and users can directly complete high-frequency services such as booking hotels, purchasing train tickets, movie tickets and other high-frequency services by using the corresponding smart mini programs in Baidu App, and no longer need to jump between different Apps.

At present, it has become the trend of the times for Internet companies to eliminate barriers and achieve interconnection. On December 16, 2021, Baidu released the "Superconductivity Plan", announcing that it has reached cooperation with a number of head mobile phone manufacturers, and the self-contained browsers of the cooperative mobile phone manufacturers will fully access the Baidu intelligent mini program ecology and support 660,000 Baidu smart mini programs to run in the mobile browser. At present, the number of smart mini program daily active users (DAUs) of these mobile browsers has exceeded 10 million, and it is expected to exceed 50 million in the future, covering hundreds of millions of users.

In addition, Baidu will also open up AI technology to partners, continue to open up Baidu brain, Xiaodu Assistant, Apollo autonomous driving, Baidu map, Baidu network disk and other capabilities, and promote the integration and innovation of the industrial chain.

Shen Ji, executive vice president of Baidu Group, said: "Interconnection is the next dividend of China's Internet, which will make China's Internet restart its vitality engine. Baidu firmly supports and embraces connectivity, and Baidu is willing to work with all parties to tear down the walled garden of the Internet, rebuild the open Internet, create a better experience for users, and promote the high-quality development of the industry. ”