Beijing city authorities gave Baidu the first batch of licenses to conduct open road test for driverless vehicles. Chinese tech giant Baidu has been making efforts in developing AI technology and is the only company to obtain five temporary plates for road tests in Beijing. Baidu will be testing its Apollo autonomous driving technology in […]
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Briefing: Ping An Good Doctor to roll out hundreds of thousands of AI-powered mini clinics in China
Each AI-powered clinic is said to be about the size of a telephone booth.
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Faraday Future: How a “Tesla-killer” became a zombie company
Faraday Future is a powerful tale of ugly corporate wrangling and unbridled ambition gone awry.
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Live blog: Highlights from CES Asia
CES Asia, one of the world’s largest trade shows, kicked off in Shanghai on June 13. Over 500 companies from around the world are taking part in the three-day show, generating buzzes in artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, electric vehicles, and more. TechNode team is going to be live blogging from the event to bring the […]
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JingChi announces partnership with Baidu’s Apollo days after founder’s departure
Just days after founder and CEO Wang Jing stepped down, Chinese self-driving startup JingChi (景驰科技) joins Baidu’s Apollo as an official partner, 36kr.com is reporting (in Chinese). Wang Jin, the former senior vice-president of Baidu’s autonomous driving unit, left Baidu in March 2017 to found JingChi. Last December, the Chinese search engine giant filed an RMB […]
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Could data privacy concerns spoil China’s autonomous vehicle ambitions?
Editor’s note: This was contributed by Jamie Manley, a former Program Associate at the Paulson Institute, a think-and-do tank focused on strengthening US-China relations and advancing sustainable economic growth in both countries. He can be contacted on LinkedIn or by adding jamiemanley on WeChat. The race to develop autonomous vehicles is on. But how soon […]
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With D-Alliance, Didi plans to overturn car ownership and manufacturing worldwide
Didi Chuxing is launching a program to alter the very nature of car ownership and shake up the automobile manufacturing supply chain in China—and beyond. The company masterminded a shift to “car operation” announcing the move at a glitzy event in Beijing attended by auto industry top brass. “In the future, software, hardware, and user […]
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Shanghai announces AI World 2018
On the afternoon of July 4th, the AI World 2018 was held in the Press Office of Shanghai municipal government. At the press conference, Wu Qing, Deputy Mayor of Shanghai introduced the conference. AI World 2018 will be held in Shanghai from September 17 to 19 of this year by National Development and Reform Commission, […]
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JD.com logs RMB 6 billion in sales within the first hour of Singles’ Day campaign
Consumers from Guangdong, Beijing, Jiangsu, Sichuan, and Shandong spent the most within the first hour of Flash Deals.
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NIO and SAIC given China’s first licenses to road test driverless cars
China issued on Thursday the first batch of licenses for road tests of driverless vehicles to NIO, a Chinese electric vehicle startup, and the state-owned auto maker SAIC Motor. The licenses would allow the two auto makers to test the vehicles (in Chinese) on a 5.6-km public road in Jiading District of Shanghai, as reported by […]
