Autonomous Driving Concept Stocks Watch | BIDU-SW(09888.HK) Slips Mildly in Afternoon Trading; Baidu AI to Showcase Full Range of AI Agents at WAIC 2026

NewTimeSpace News: On 13 July 2026,BIDU-SW(09888.HK) registered a mild decline in afternoon trading. As of 15:27, its intraday price stood at HK$114.50, representing a 0.78% drop.

In related news, Baidu AI will bring its full lineup of AI agents to WAIC 2026. New upgrades to Baidu’s full-stack AI product matrix of chips, cloud, foundation models and AI agents will also be unveiled at the exhibition, fully demonstrating the scaled deployment progress of Baidu AI from fundamental technological breakthroughs to industrial scenarios and personal consumer applications.

Guoyuan Securities commented that a circular issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on 9 July disclosed that since the start of 2026, the market penetration rate of new passenger vehicles equipped with integrated driving assistance systems in China has reached 70%, among which over 30% of new vehicles are fitted with Navigation on Autopilot (NOA). L2-level integrated driving assistance has practically become a standard configuration for new vehicles and entered the daily lives of most car owners. Meanwhile, NOA, the advanced intelligent driving function, is in a rapid expansion growth phase.

BIDU-SW (09888.HK) Focuses on the R&D of L4 autonomous driving algorithms and the commercialization of unmanned Robotaxis. Leveraged by the ERNIE foundational model and optimized by the Qianfan compute base, its "Apollo Go" autonomous ride-hailing service has achieved large-scale, normalized commercial operations across multiple core cities in China, with cumulative autonomous test mileage exceeding hundreds of millions of kilometers. Through high-frequency, high-confidence real-world road test data cleansing, the company continues to solidify the most robust data asset and algorithmic moat within the HKEX autonomous driving sector.

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