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Beyond that, Zhang said Baidu also relies on cloud technology to support its search engine -- the biggest in China -- as well as its ecosystem for internet-connected home devices, or Internet of Things.
Still, Baidu’s cloud business remains the smallest among China’s three biggest tech giants known as BAT -- Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent -- according to research by Deutsche Bank. (Abacus is a unit of the South China Morning Post, which is owned by Alibaba).
Zhang said, “We don’t aim for the biggest, but we aim to provide the most intelligent cloud.”
Born in January 1966 in Shanxi province, Zhang was admitted to the University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 12 -- the country’s youngest college student at the time. By 23, he earned a doctorate in electrical engineering from George Washington University in the US. He joined Microsoft in 1999 as one of the key founders of the company’s Asia research arm.
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