Baidu names former Microsoft exec as COO in artificial intelligence push!!

Baidu names former Microsoft exec as COO in artificial intelligence push!! China's Baidu said it has selected a previous Microsoft official as head working officer, part of a push into manmade brainpower as income from its center web crawler business fade. Baidu has been refocusing its business system after the presentation of new promoting controls, went for medicinal publicizing specifically, prompted to a 16 percent drop in advertisement clients amid quarter finished in September. Qi Lu, who was an official VP at Microsoft and headed its unit accountable for Office, Bing and Skype until last September, will create computerized reasoning as a key vital concentration for Baidu throughout the following decade. "Dr. Lu has an abundance of initiative and administration encounter, and is a main specialist in the zone of manmade brainpower," Baidu Chief Executive Robin Li in an announcement. The organization propelled a $200 million reserve in October to concentrate on counterfeit consciousness, expanded reality and profound learning, trailed by a $3 billion store declared in September to target mid and late stage new businesses. In 2014 Baidu named another previous Microsoft official, Zhang Ya-Qin, as president, regulating developing business. Zhang will report straightforwardly to Lu under the new course of action. Baidu, which is relied upon to report entire year income one month from now, has conjecture a 4.6 percent dunk in income in the quarter finishing in December.