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百度如流 (Infoflow) is Baidu’s AI-powered smart work platform, unifying enterprise messaging, meetings, documents and knowledge management on ERNIE models.

Overview

如流 (formerly Baidu Hi) is Baidu’s own internal work platform, opened to enterprises as an AI-first collaboration suite. It combines instant messaging, video conferencing, collaborative documents, project management and enterprise services (attendance, approvals, announcements) in one app, all infused with ERNIE (文心一言) capabilities: smart meeting summaries, real-time transcription, AI document drafting and knowledge Q&A over company content. Its knowledge-graph approach makes organizational know-how searchable and reusable, and Baidu dogfoods the product across tens of thousands of employees.

Enterprises adopting 如流 typically start with meetings and docs: transcription captures every discussion, ERNIE generates summaries and action items, and knowledge search makes past decisions retrievable. Approval and attendance workflows replace separate OA tools, and cross-platform clients keep remote and office staff in sync. For organizations already invested in Baidu Cloud, the integration path is straightforward, with APIs linking HR and ERP data into the workspace.

Key Features

• IM, video meetings and collaborative docs in a single workspace
• ERNIE-powered meeting transcription, summaries and action items
• Enterprise knowledge management with knowledge-graph search
• AI drafting and Q&A over internal documents
• Enterprise services: approvals, attendance, announcements and reporting
• Cross-platform clients for desktop, mobile and HarmonyOS
• Meeting transcription with AI summaries and action items
• Enterprise service workflows: approvals, attendance, announcements

Pricing

如流 offers free basic use for teams, with paid enterprise editions adding advanced AI quotas, admin controls and integration capacity; large deployments are arranged through Baidu’s enterprise sales.

Who Is It For

It targets Chinese enterprises — especially those standardized on domestic AI and cloud stacks — that want an integrated, AI-native alternative to fragmented office tools.

A technology group standardizes on 如流: meetings transcribe automatically with ERNIE generating summaries and action items, knowledge search surfaces past decisions, and approvals run in the same workspace. Remote and office staff share documents and projects across platforms, and API links push HR data into the directory. The tooling consolidates what previously required several separate systems.

FAQ

Is 百度如流 free to use?

Basic collaboration features are free; enterprise-grade AI capabilities and administration require paid plans.

Does 百度如流 offer an API?

Yes, open APIs and integration frameworks let enterprises connect HR, ERP and other systems.

How does 百度如流 compare to alternatives?

Against 钉钉 and 飞书, 如流’s differentiator is ERNIE-based knowledge management; competitors offer larger third-party app ecosystems.

Does 百度如流 support HarmonyOS devices?

Yes — 如流 has expanded to HarmonyOS alongside Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, keeping Baidu’s internal AI workspace available across major device ecosystems.