Yesterday，36氪 received the official invitation letter from Baidu，Announcement of press conference to be held on December 17th，Announcement of an important cross-border investment and strategic cooperation agreement，CEO Robin Li will attend with a mysterious guest。According to reports from Sina Technology，This mysterious guest is Uber CEO Travis Kalanick。

If the news is true，So in just one week，The three BAT giants have completed a new round of investment in taxi-hailing software。Didi Taxi just announced 188bet Online Sports Betting and Casino a US0 million financing，Tencent has participated in four consecutive rounds of investment starting from Series B。It is rumored that Kuaidi Taxi also recently completed a round of financing，A scale of hundreds of millions of dollars，Alibaba participates。After getting the money，Kuaiti Taxi has started a new round of subsidy activities，“Free starting price for taxi rides during Double 12”。

The scale of Baidu’s investment in Uber is currently unclear。Uber just closed $1.2 billion in funding，Valuation $40 billion。But according to Forbes，After new investors enter the market，Financing scale increased to US$1.8 billion。The theme of this round of financing is “Uber’s business expansion in Asia”。So Baidu is likely to be this new investor，The investment scale should be hundreds of millions of dollars。

Although Baidu began to integrate a taxi-hailing function on the map app at the beginning of this 188bet app download year，But since the “subsidy war” of taxi-hailing software，This field is the duo of Alibaba and Tencent。Baidu’s strategic investment in Uber，Shows their determination to further penetrate into life services。

And Uber also has great demand for local partners in China，They just shut down the service in India because the driver was suspected of rape。Uber in Asia and Europe over the past six months，Even the United States continues to encounter regulatory problems。In China, a market with strong policy control，Find Baidu, which is more familiar with communicating with the government、A partner who is familiar with local user habits is also a reasonable decision。