Baidu AI Cloud announced a comprehensive upgrade and release of the Qianfan Large Model Platform 2.0 at the 2023 Baidu Cloud Intelligence Conference on Tuesday. 

SHEN Dou, vice president of Baidu who's in charge of the company's cloud computing business, said some 10,000 companies have started using the Qianfan platform. 

According to Baidu, the Qianfan platform manages a total of 42 mainstream large models from both domestic and international sources, preloads 41 industry-specific datasets, and comes with 10 selected application paradigms such as knowledge Q&A, customer service chat, and code assistance.