--- title: "Event | Baidu Wenxin Cup Season 2 — Signup Countdown 15 Days" author: "Unique Research" sourcePublication: "Unique Research (FFCAP English library)" originalPublishedAt: "2024-04-30T11:30:00+08:00" canonical: "https://ffcap.cn/en/research/20240430a03exz00" source: "https://ffcap.cn/en/research/20240430a03exz00" language: "en" cnSourceUrl: "https://view.inews.qq.com/a/20240430A03EXZ00" --- # Event | Baidu Wenxin Cup Season 2 — Signup Countdown 15 Days _Unique Research · Event signup · April 30, 2024_ ## Background At Baidu’s **Create 2024** AI Developer Conference on **April 16**, founder, chairman, and CEO **Robin Li (Li Yanhong)** launched Season 2 of the **Wenxin Cup** (文心杯) startup contest. Winning teams can receive cash and resource investment worth up to **¥50M**. Create 2024’s theme was _“Everyone is a developer”_. Li: “AI is unleashing a creativity revolution; building an app will be as simple as shooting a short video — everyone a developer, everyone a creator.” On Season 1 (launched May last year): nearly **1,000** teams applied; Baidu backed **15** winners with nearly **¥100M** of investment plus ongoing tech, team, and resource support — aimed at AI-native apps and a livelier foundation-model ecosystem. Two AI-application startups served by **Unique Capital** took third prize among those ~1,000 projects. Unique Capital followed Season 1 from recruiting through finals to resource delivery, and views Baidu as currently the strongest industrial investor supporting the AI application layer. 2024 is shaping up as the year of foundation-model landing and commercialization; younger founders keep emerging, and internationalization is a key AI-startup trend. Season 2 builds on Season 1 and upgrades further. ## Contest details Season 2 recruits globally. No limits on background, direction, or stage — as long as the venture is an **AI-native application** (vertical apps, agents, or any domain where foundation models solve problems and create value). Support upgrades: richer strategic capital, business resources, and traffic exposure. First / second / third prize teams receive cash-and-resource packages valued at **¥10M / ¥5M / ¥2M** respectively. A new **Special Grand Prize** can reach up to **¥50M** in cash and resources. Participants also get top-tier technical mentoring, ecosystem support, and access to a jury of Baidu AI leaders and top investors. ## Registration _Signup channel appeared as an image/QR block in the original Chinese post; no registration URL was present in the extracted text — do not invent one. Refer to the CN article for the live channel._ — END — --- Editorial English edition published on UniqueCapital: https://ffcap.cn/en/research/20240430a03exz00 On-site reading page: https://ffcap.cn/en/research/20240430a03exz00