With the Beijing development, Baidu can now operate driverless taxi services in three Chinese cities including Wuhan and Chongqing.
Chinese tech giant Baidu has secured the rights to provide the first fully driverless taxi service in the Chinese capital, Beijing. The announcement was made by the Beijing-based company on Friday, including as part of its logistical rollout. Baidu said its Apollo Go service will deploy 10 fully driverless cars at a technology park developed by Beijing’s government.
Apollo Go currently has vehicles operating more than 20 rides per day in the Yizhuang Economic Development Zone. Yizhuang Economic Development Zone is one of China’s autonomous driving cradles.
In the fourth quarter last year, Apollo Go completed 561,000 rides, representing a year-on-year (YoY) growth of 162%. In addition, the platform’s cumulative number of rides exceeded two million at the end of January. This development makes Baidu the world’s largest autonomous ride-hailing service provider. This year, the Chinese tech powerhouse is also looking to set up the world’s largest driverless ride-hailing sector.
Baidu driverless taxi permit in Beijing is a significant step since last December. At the time, Baidu received a permit to test the service as the company sought to diversify beyond its bread-and-butter Internet search engine service. The Chinese multinational tech company has focused on autonomous driving technologies over the past five years.
Expanded Baidu Wuhan driverless taxi operation capability
late decemberBaidu began offering autonomous night-time taxis in the Chinese city of Wuhan. This plan was a step up from the daytime operations that the company previously operated in the city. Baidu reported that the autonomous service, which runs from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., would include about one million customers.
In a previous statement, Baidu also touched on its autonomous vehicle visual-language model for identifying unseen objects in long-tail scenarios. According For the tech giant, “the model enables autonomous vehicles to quickly understand unseen objects such as special vehicle (fire truck, ambulance) recognition, plastic bag misidentification, and others. In addition, Baidu’s autonomous driving perception model – Wenxin Big A sub-model of the model – taking advantage of over 1 billion parameters – has been able to dramatically improve the generalization ability of autonomous driving perception.
As it stands, Baidu will operate driverless robotaxi services in three Chinese cities – Beijing, Wuhan and Chongqing.
chatgpt rival
in other Recent Baidu News, the company’s shares fell 6% after the company’s CEO, Robin Lee, unveiled ChatGPT’s rival AI chatbot. Much of the negative reaction was broadcast to the ‘pre-recorded’ presentation format of the unveiling.
Li explained the benefits of the Chinese language ChatGPT initiative. According to him, “Its extremely strong ability to understand and express language will allow any company to get closer to its customers. This is an opportunity for every company, and it will even have an impact on every individual.”
Despite acknowledging some inherent flaws in the tech’s current functionality, Baidu’s CEO said the AI bot is “advancing very quickly.”
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