Moment Conference
- Chinese name
- 百度文心Moment大会
- Organizer
- City
- Shanghai
- Held
- January
- Cadence
- single documented edition
Moment Conference was a Baidu-run product and developer event held in Shanghai on January 22, 2026, positioned around the company’s Wenxin/ERNIE roadmap and used as a showcase for “real-time interactive” digital humans as a flagship application layer. In reporting about the event, Baidu demonstrated a digital-human interaction segment in which a guest conversed with a Luo Yonghao digital human built with its Huiboxing tooling, including a deliberate test prompt to reproduce his recognizable catchphrase to probe how well the avatar could mimic persona-specific speech habits; observers described the result as noticeably improved but still limited by stiffness and uneven pacing, illustrating the gap between convincing visual-and-voice performance and the broader ambition of lifelike, responsive digital presenters. In that context, the conference messaging treated digital humans as an end-to-end system problem spanning model capability, voice generation, and video rendering, and framed these avatars as commercially relevant to scenarios like livestreaming and public-facing presentations where authenticity, latency, and controllable character consistency matter as much as raw model intelligence.