Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) introduced a series of AI agent products at its annual developer conference and proposed Daily Active Agents as a new metric for measuring success in the artificial intelligence industry.

Co-founder and CEO Robin Li said the company views Daily Active Agents (DAA) as the agent era's equivalent of Daily Active Users from the mobile internet period. Li stated that tokens represent cost rather than value and predicted global DAA could eventually surpass 10 billion.

The company unveiled updates to its agent portfolio including DuMate, a general-purpose agent now available on mobile with real-time synchronization between mobile and PC platforms. DuMate can read screens, operate software, process files, and connect business systems.

Baidu launched app and enterprise editions of its coding agent Miaoda, which enables users to create applications without coding knowledge. The company said 90% of the Miaoda app's code was generated by Miaoda itself. An international version called MeDo is available at medo.dev.

The company also introduced upgrades to its digital human platform Baidu Yijing, which supports 12 languages and provides capabilities for live streaming, video production, and interactive experiences. The platform includes script writing, video production, and intelligent editing functions.

Baidu upgraded its self-evolving agent Famou to version 2.0, designed for production scheduling, process optimization, and logistics planning. The company reported that Famou Agent delivered a 10.21% performance improvement at an automated port facility.

The announcements were supported by infrastructure upgrades to Baidu AI Cloud, repositioned as a full-stack AI cloud for large-scale agent applications. A dedicated cluster powered by Baidu's Kunlunxin AI chip supported training of the ERNIE 5.1 foundation model, which the company said ranked first among Chinese models on LMArena's text and search leaderboards.