Baidu World
- Chinese name
- 百度世界
- Organizer
- City
- Beijing
- Held
- November
- Cadence
- annual
- Website
Baidu World is Baidu’s annual flagship conference for announcing strategy, major AI capabilities, and product launches, positioned by the company as its top-tier event for industry, partners, media, and users and described on the official conference site as a long-running series dating back to 2006. In the digital-human context, Baidu World 2025 (held on November 13, 2025) centered “real-time interactive” digital humans and livestream-oriented digital human agents as a practical interface layer for commerce and content, including the announcement that Huibo Xing (慧播星) digital human livestream technology would be opened globally, with Robin Li framing digital humans as a foundational technology and even a general interactive interface in the AI era, and Baidu-backed reporting highlighting Double 11 performance claims such as GMV up 91% year over year, livestream-room counts up 119%, and 83% of active streamers having used Huibo Xing digital humans. The same event also illustrated the operational challenges of live, on-stage digital-human interaction when a planned real-time link with a “digital-human Luo Yonghao” failed (black screen/connection failure), which Li publicly described as regrettable, underscoring that Baidu World functions both as a launch platform for digital-human commercialization and as a high-visibility proving ground for real-time robustness.