Nvidia Teams Up With Baidu to Develop Artificial Intelligence, Self-Driving Car
September 01 2016 - 1:44AM
Dow Jones News
By Alyssa Abkowitz
BEIJING--Chip maker Nvidia Corp. and Chinese internet giant
Baidu Inc. said Thursday that they are forming a partnership to
develop a self-driving, artificially intelligent car.
Speaking at the annual Baidu World conference, Nvidia co-founder
and Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang announced that his Santa Clara,
Calif.-based company will work with Baidu to build a self-driving
car platform whose algorithm-based operating system will include
cloud-based, high-definition maps and the ability to perceive and
react to different road environments.
"No company in the world today has demonstrated the ability to
integrate this system and deploy it at scale for millions of cars
to drive by themselves," Mr. Huang said. "We are going to bring
together our technical capabilities and expertise in AI" to make
this happen.
The partnership comes after Baidu received approval earlier this
week from regulators to test its self-driving cars in California,
where Tesla Motors Inc., Ford Motor Co. and Google parent Alphabet
Inc., among others, are testing their autonomous-driving cars on
the road. Baidu already is testing self-driving cars in China and
has said it plans to mass produce them within five years.
Mr. Huang said Nvidia started collaborating on artificial
intelligence with Baidu in 2012 when the two companies worked to
develop a large-scale graphics processing unit which made it
possible for machine intelligence to train at a larger scale.
Write to Alyssa Abkowitz at alyssa.abkowitz@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 01, 2016 01:29 ET (05:29 GMT)
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