Pony.ai, Horizon Robotics, WeRide, MiniMax, and Anthropic—these five companies founded by former Baidu employees now have the following valuations: As of January 16, Baidu’s market cap is approximately HK$398.4 billion Horizon Robotics: HK$137.728 billion MiniMax: HK$131.288 billion Pony.ai: HK$54.583 billion WeRide: HK$24.656 billion Anthropic: valuation has skyrocketed to $350 billion Baidu ending up like this only proves the company is doomed to fail sooner or later. The talented ones left, and the mediocre ones stayed. Baidu’s AI products are still a pile of crap.