China's internet giant Baidu has finalized an agreement with communications titan China Unicom on Nov. 2 to cooperate on mobile Internet, artificial intelligence (AI), big data and communication. The two parties will jointly pave a path of innovation through resources exchange and technology-sharing.

China Unicom will establish online services for its hundreds of thousands of franchised outlets with the support of Baidu's AI technology. In return, China Unicom will provide Baidu with services including an Internet data center and information and communications technology.

The president and CEO of Baidu, Robin Li, believes that the company's AI technology will boost the industries as well the user experience of China Unicom's customer base. Wang Xiaochu, president of China Unicom, also expressed optimism about the potential of the collaboration.

With the application of cutting-edge technologies such as speech recognition, face recognition, voice assistant and natural language-processing, Baidu will improve the service quality and efficiency of China Unicom's offline outlets, promoting intelligent service, logistics and cash flow.