{"id":9852,"date":"2024-05-08T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T01:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=9852"},"modified":"2024-05-08T09:34:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T01:34:04","slug":"%e8%8b%b1%e5%9b%bd%e6%97%a0%e4%ba%ba%e9%a9%be%e9%a9%b6%e6%b1%bd%e8%bd%a6%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8wayve%e8%8e%b7%e5%be%9710%e4%ba%bf%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84-%e8%bd%af%e9%93%b6%e9%a2%86%e6%8a%95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/9852.html","title":{"rendered":"British driverless car company Wayve raises $1 billion in funding led by SoftBank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.K.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%97%a0%e4%ba%ba%e9%a9%be%e9%a9%b6\" title=\"[Sees articles with [unmanned] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >unpiloted<\/a>Automotive company Wayve has secured more than $1 billion from three of the world's most influential tech companies<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>to commercialize its products. The C round was led by investor SoftBank, with participation from Nvidia and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content__img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9853\" title=\"202011131622030722_0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/202011131622030722_0.jpg\" alt=\"202011131622030722_0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The funds will help develop the startup's artificial intelligence software, which could make any vehicle driverless. This is the first time so far that a European AI startup has been given a<span class=\"spamTxt\">maximum<\/span>Venture Capital. The $1.05 billion funding round could value London-based Wayve at billions of dollars, although the company and investors have not disclosed specific figures.<\/p>\n<p>Wayve was founded in 2017 by Alex Kendall (31) and Amar Shah, two PhD students at the University of Cambridge, who research machine learning, computational vision and robotics and wanted to explore a different approach to driverlessness.Wayve's AI software enables any vehicle to be driverless, bringing the automotive industry an innovative solution for the automotive industry.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British driverless car company Wayve has secured more than $1 billion in funding from three of the world's most influential tech companies to commercialize its product. The C funding round was led by investor SoftBank, with participation from Nvidia and Microsoft. The funds will help develop the startup's artificial intelligence software, which could make any vehicle driverless. This is the largest venture capital investment in a European AI startup to date. The $1.05 billion funding round could value London-based Wayve at billions of dollars, although the company and investors did not disclose the exact figure. Wayve was founded in 2017 by two Cambridge University PhD students, Alex K<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[2512,421],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-9852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2512","tag-421"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=9852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}