Autonomous Driving Concept Stocks Insight | BIDU-W (09888.HK) Edges Lower Intraday; Apollo Go to Launch Free Rides in Tung Chung, Hong Kong Starting Oct 21

NewTimeSpace News: On October 20, 2026,BIDU-W(09888.HK) traded weaker intraday. As of 09:42, the stock was quoted at HK$77.85, down 2.01%.

According to multiple Hong Kong media reports, Apollo Go, Baidu’s autonomous ride-hailing service, will launch a two-week public free trial ride programme in Tung Chung starting October 21. The public trial is expected to invite more than 1,000 participants.

Per National Business Daily, on October 19, Alibaba DAMO Academy released the automotive-grade enhanced processor XuanTie E908A. It is the first RISC-V CPU IP that meets both ASIL-B and ASIL-D standards, with its Single Point Fault Metric (SPFM) exceeding 90% for the first time in the industry. DAMO Academy also unveiled its product roadmap for autonomous driving and embodied intelligence. The next-generation XuanTie C950A targets performance five times that of existing RISC-V automotive-grade products.

BIDU-W (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.