Who owns Apollo Go?
Apollo Go is owned by Baidu (China, NASDAQ: BIDU).[1]
Evidence: Baidu, Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-03-17, SEC EDGAR, 17 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Baidu, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Beijing
- Origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online commerce › Ride-hailing
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: BIDU HKEX: 9888
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Apollo Go
Apollo Go is Baidu's robotaxi service, hailed through an app called Luobokuaipao. It had given the public more than 20 million rides by February 2026 and has run fully driverless in every Chinese mainland city it serves since February 2025, among them Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Chongqing. Its footprint reached 26 cities by February 2026, Dubai and Abu Dhabi among them.
What Baidu's annual report says about Apollo Go
Sentences about Apollo Go from Baidu's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
As of February 2026, the accumulated rides provided to the public by Apollo Go exceeded 20 million.
Since February 2025, Apollo Go has commenced fully driverless operations across all of its operating cities in the Chinese mainland.
Apollo Go received Beijing's first license to test vehicles with no driver or safety operator in the car on December 30, 2022, and has charged fees since August 10, 2023.
How often Baidu names Apollo Go in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Apollo Go
Where Apollo Go sits in Baidu
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Baidu
Baidu controls 14 brands on Brandtree, 14 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in ride-hailing, and who owns them
The 16 brands in ride-hailing on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is Lyft, with 3.
About the owner: Baidu
Baidu is a publicly listed company headquartered in Beijing, China, founded in 2000. Brandtree records 14 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888.
Baidu describes itself as a leading AI company with a strong internet foundation. It was founded as a search engine business in 2000, incorporated in the Cayman Islands that January, and runs three main areas: a Mobile Ecosystem of more than a dozen apps built around Baidu App, an AI Cloud division, and intelligent driving, which includes the Apollo Go robotaxi service. Baidu General Business — the group excluding its separately listed video service iQIYI — contributed over 70 per cent of revenue in each of 2023, 2024 and 2025. Its shares trade on Nasdaq and, since March 2021, on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
🇨🇳 Apollo Go and other Chinese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 319 brands that began in China. 39 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Apollo Go is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Apollo Go?
The parent company of Apollo Go is Baidu, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is Apollo Go Chinese?
Yes. Apollo Go originated in China and its owner, Baidu, is also headquartered in China.
Is Apollo Go still owned by Baidu?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Apollo Go is still owned by Baidu. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Baidu, Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-03-17 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 17 March 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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