Self-driving

Pony.ai has previously been approved to provide robotaxi service without a driver in the car in Beijing and Guangzhou.

Alibaba's DAMO Academy's autonomous driving lab will lay off about 70 percent of its staff, while others will be transferred to the e-commerce giant's logistics arm, according to local media.

This is the first such permit issued in Guangzhou, where Pony.ai's 17 robotaxis have been approved to provide robotaxi service without safety officers.

DriveGPT will reshape the route of vehicle intelligence technology, allowing assisted driving to evolve faster and autonomous driving to come sooner, said Haomo CEO.

In September 2022, WeRide launched its Singapore company and signed a memorandum of cooperation with a subsidiary of a local public transport operator in November.

Passenger cars integrated with Driver 3.0 will be available at an established car brand this year, DeepRoute said.

To date, Baidu's Apollo Go has been offering fully driverless ride-hailing services in Beijing, Wuhan and Chongqing.

Haomo DriveGPT has now completed model building and validation of the first phase of data, with parameters comparable in scale to GPT-2.

Tesla has pioneered the autonomous driving 3.0 era, and Haomo is most likely to be the first Chinese company to do the same, analyst says.

Baidu's self-driving unit Apollo plans to put 200 fully driverless vehicles into operation in China in 2023 to create the world's largest driverless operations service area.