(Yicai Global) Aug. 19 -- Baidu has extended the services of its artificial intelligence cloud  computing unit to Singapore in order to support local firms and Chinese  ones going abroad. The first clients are the two subsidiaries of video  platform IQiyi and application developer Do Global. 

Baidu AI Cloud will offer  computing, storage, networking, security, database, and system  management services and roll out more in the future, the Beijing-based  company said in a statement today. 

Baidu AI Cloud is already available in multiple markets in the Asia Pacific region and it will expand globally, the firm added. 

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