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Wayve’s AI Self-Driving System Is Here to Drive Like a Human and Take On Waymo and Tesla
Unlike Waymo's hybrid system of AI training with hand-coded instructions, Wayve's AI handles the entire self-driving process, learning unsupervised to cope with the unpredictable and drive more like we do.
With a self-storage warehouse on one side, and a fast-food shop on the other, Wayve's north London facility doesn't look like the headquarters of a company which won a billion-dollar investment from Softbank, Microsoft and Nvidia: The largest-ever capital raise by a European artificial intelligence firm. It is central enough for Wayve's 32-year-old founder Alex Kendall to be driven to Downing Street in 25 minutes by one of his autonomous cars, but distant enough for the Primrose Sandwich Bar across the road still to be able to serve a cheap mug of tea. In addition to the Wayve deal, Alphabet's Waymo is now giving 150,000 driverless rides each week in San Francisco, LA and Phoenix, and has just announced its expansion to Austin and Atlanta from early next year.
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