HK Stock Market Move | BIDU-W (09888) rises over 5% as Baidu's Apollo World model debuts, already used in Apollo Go's global testing and validation

BIDU-W (09888) rose over 5%, up 4.7% as of press time at HK$80.15, with turnover of HK$787 million. On the news front, according to Baidu's official WeChat account, at the Baidu AI DayApollo special event held in Shenzhen recently, Baidu Apollo for the first time disclosed Apollo World, an agent-driven omni-modal world model for physical AI, and proposed the "2+3" criteria for world models. According to the introduction, Apollo World extracts high-value scenarios from real data and transforms complex road conditions and risks into reproducible virtual tests. Currently, Apollo World has been used in Apollo Go's global testing and validation, helping to advance the large-scale deployment of autonomous driving.