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Baidu says it is ready to move from technical verification to large-scale commercial operation of self-driving cars.
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Baidu launches China's first commercial driverless taxi serviceYou can now book and pay for a ride in a driverless taxi from Baidu's Apollo Go service in parts of Beijing.
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Chinese tech giant Baidu gets into EV game with Geely
Baidu plans to get into the EV game using a modular platform developed by Geely.
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VW the latest to join Baidu's Apollo self-driving car program
There has been a flurry of announcements concerning the Apollo self-driving car program of Chinese tech giant Baidu in the past week. The latest comes from Volkswagen Group which on Friday said it would join the Apollo program. The automaker also said it would gain a seat on the program's board of...
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Ford partners with Chinese tech giant Baidu to test Level 4 self-driving cars
Ford and Chinese internet services giant Baidu have joined forces to develop self-driving technology. The two firms announced last week that they will jointly test Level 4 self-driving cars in Beijing, initially in a program of two years duration starting in late 2018. A Level 4 self-driving car...
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Volvo will jointly develop self-driving car with Chinese tech giant Baidu
Volvo hit the accelerator Thursday on the further integration of the automotive and tech industries by announcing plans to jointly develop a self-driving car with Chinese internet services giant Baidu. The plan is to mass produce the cars in China for sale to fleets as well as individuals. Timing...
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While most companies competing in the self-driving space are closely guarding their developments, Baidu, a search engine giant from China and leader in the development of artificial intelligence, is taking the opposite approach. It's developing a fully open-source self-driving system called Apollo, and at this week's 2018 Consumer Electronics Show the company announced the second-generation version Apollo 2.0. “Open platforms and ecosystems are the best way to accelerate the transition of AI technologies toward commercialization,” Baidu President and CEO Qi Lu said in a statement...
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Nvidia partners with VW, Uber and Baidu on artificial intelligence for self-driving cars
Nvidia kicked off the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday by announcing a trio of new partnerships: one with ride-hailing company Uber, China's Baidu, and Volkswagen. CNBC reported on the new partnerships, which positions the computer-chip maker as a force in self-driving technology. With...
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Chinese tech giant Baidu taps Microsoft to expand development of self-driving cars
China's biggest search engine—Baidu—and Microsoft are expanding their self-driving-vehicle partnership to cover data storage, security, and artificial intelligence services for the companies' open-source autonomous vehicle platform, Apollo. Microsoft's Azure cloud-storage service will...
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Chinese rival to Google working with BMW on autonomous car, prototype to launch this year
Google isn't the only tech giant in the autonomous car game any longer as Chinese search engine giant Baidu is hoping to start testing of a self-driving car this year together with BMW. Baidu signed a partnership agreement with the German automaker in 2014 to develop autonomous car technology and...
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