Baidu's Xiaodu Launched a Hardware Line Built Around Its Chaoneng AI Assistant
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Baidu's smart-device arm Xiaodu held a product event on September 8 at 2 p.m. Beijing time covering smart displays, smart speakers, cameras, and 'Tiantian' companion screens aimed at families and elderly users with health monitoring and video calling. Every device runs the upgraded Chaoneng Xiaodu assistant introduced last November, and the invitation also showed a second-generation AI monitoring agent for Xiaodu cameras. It is a bet that the assistant, not the screen, is what sells the hardware.