Baidu Snags 50-Plus Partners for its Apollo Driverless Car
- Partners include Bosch, Continental, Chinese automakers
- Company also showed off a voice-activated speaker device
Baidu Snags Partners for Driverless Car Project
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Baidu Inc. has enlisted more than 50 partners for its Apollo driverless project, signing up major players in areas from mapping and ride-sharing to automaking to aid the Chinese search giant’s foray into AI-powered vehicles.
The program aims to open up part of Baidu’s autonomous car software in the same way that Google released its Android operating system for smartphones. By encouraging more companies to build products using them, Baidu hopes to fine-tune its nascent systems and overtake rival research efforts by the likes of Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo.