Baidu beats revenue estimates helped by AI, cloud services – CNA

China’s search engine giant Baidu Inc on Thursday posted a net loss of 885 million yuan ($131 million) for the quarter ended March 31, amid an economic downturn and pandemic resurgence in China.

A year earlier it had posted a profit of 25.65 billion yuan, or 73.76 yuan per ADS.

Revenue rose 1 per cent to 28.41 billion yuan, the slowest growth in six quarters, but topped an analysts’ average estimate of 27.82 billion, IBES data from Refinitiv showed.

“Since mid-March, our business has been negatively impacted by the recent COVID-19 resurgence in China,” Robin Li, Baidu’s founder and chief executive, said in a statement, adding that challenges related to the virus will continue to pressure its operations in the near term.

Revenue for Baidu Core, which provides mainly online marketing services and products from its AI initiatives, rose 4 per cent to $20.48 billion.

Sales from Baidu AI cloud, its public cloud service and one of the company’s fastest-growing units, jumped 45 per cent,…

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