Baidu Builds Largest Computer Brain for Online Queries
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Baidu Inc. is building the world’s largest and most powerful computer cluster to improve image recognition as online queries move away from text.
With about 100 billion digitally simulated neural connections, Baidu’s computing cluster will be 100 times more powerful than the 2012 Google Inc. project dubbed “Google Brain,” Andrew Ng, chief scientist at the operator of China’s biggest search engine, said in an interview yesterday. Engineers at a Baidu lab in Silicon Valley are designing the project, which will be built in Beijing and completed in about six months, according to Ng.