Baidu's Results Shine, But Its Upcoming ChatBot Could Steal The Showzorazhuang$Baidu(BIDU)$ Founder and Chairman, Robin Li, has always regarded global search leader $Alphabet(GOOG)$ as his No. 1 role model. China's own leading search engine has followed the U.S. giant in nearly every field it has entered, including artificial intelligence (AI).That AI focus has served Baidu well lately, combining with relatively strong performance from its key advertising and cloud businesses to power the company past market expectations in both revenue and profit in its latest quarterly results. Its performance for the entire year was a bit less stellar, though mostly due to factors beyond its control, like China's econo