Who Could Build AI Search in China: Four Camps

Originally published in Chinese on February 20, 2024. I have written before about what search is worth. Broadly, the players in AI search split into the following camps. Four camps of AI search players Big companies with search Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, 360, and Youdao, among others, all want to do search. Nearly every large company has its own search engine, though whether it was open to consumers was never certain. Now they may all want to give it a try.