Autonomous cars get a big Baidu boost from its ‘Apollo Fund’
BAIDU INC., China’s search engine giant and a major investor in artificial intelligence capabilities, has announced a CNY10 billion (US$1.52 billion) investment package in the “Apollo Fund” which will drive autonomous car projects over the next three years.
The company is looking to speed up its technical development in the technology in order to compete more effectively with their US rivals. 100 projects will receive investments, said Baidu in a statement, and will be timed for a launch parallel with the company’s next generation open-source autonomous vehicle software, Apollo 1.5.
The Apollo project is named after the NASA moon landing, and is aimed at bringing autonomous vehicles to Chinese roads by 2020.
Baidu has kept relatively mum on their autonomous driving technology, with most of its development contained within the boundaries of the firm. However, this April Baidu will be engaging third parties in their efforts in order to accelerate development and compete with established players, Tesla and Waymo.
26. September 2017
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