Chinese technology giant Baidu is to release a list of more than 30 manufacturing partners that are collaborating the company on the development of self-driving vehicle technology in Silicon Valley. Baidu’s efforts to establish itself as a player on the US market while maintaining a strong presence in China are appearing serious with this move.
“Like Waymo, the self-driving arm of Google parent Alphabet Inc, Baidu is using what it has learned in mapping and artificial intelligence to design the software and systems necessary to make self-driving cars a reality. … Baidu has at least one advantage over Waymo, based just five miles away at the sprawling Googleplex in Mountain View. It now has a presence in the United States, whereas Alphabet has no footprint in China, after Google shuttered its website there in 2010 rather than bow to the government’s internet censorship,” Reuters provides further.
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