Wayve and Microsoft partner to scale autonomous vehicles

Wayve and Microsoft partner to scale autonomous vehicles

Circa 2017, there was a lot of hype around autonomous driving. If one were to take that at face value, it would mean that by now autonomous driving would have been a reality already. Apparently, that’s not the case and Alex Kendall claims to have known that all along. Still, that did not stop him from setting out then and he’s still working on it today.

Kendall is the cofounder and CEO of Wayve, a company founded in 2017 to tackle the challenge of autonomous driving based on a deep learning approach. Today, Wayve announced a partnership with Microsoft to leverage the supercomputing infrastructure needed to support the development of AI-based models for autonomous vehicles on a global scale.

Wayve was founded following world-class research in deep learning from the University of Cambridge, building their first robot in a house-office garage. Kendall himself has a background in AI, with a Ph.D. in deep learning.

Kendall describes himself as being passionate about building intelligent machines that can really add a lot of value to our lives. For him, he went on to add, that involves building embodied intelligence. That’s not really how most people think about autonomous vehicles. Kendall qualified his statement as follows:

“Co-designing the hardware and software to build systems that have the ability to reason in complex environments — and I think there’s no better place to start than autonomous driving. Autonomous driving is going to be the first widespread example of intelligent machines that really transform the cities we live in”, he said.

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