Future of cars

Everyone wants an autonomous car, but today they're cost prohibitive because of the number of expensive sensors used. That is, until Congruent built a radar compatible with end-to-end training of autonomous systems. Congrats on the launch, @CBarthes and Evan! https://ycombinator.com/launches/PVp-rad…

Genie 3 🤝 @Waymo The Waymo World Model generates photorealistic, interactive environments to train autonomous vehicles. This helps the cars navigate rare, unpredictable events before encountering them in reality. 🧵

BREAKING: UK based Wayve (@wayve_ai) has just raised a $1.2B Series-D at an $8.6B valuation, ranking it as one of the UK's most valuable start-ups. The round welcomes new funding from Mercedes-Benz (@MercedesBenz), Stellantis (@Stellantis) and Nissan (@Nissan) as it prepares for London robo-taxi launch. Co-Founder and CEO Alex Kendall (@alexgkendall) says: "We started a decade ago with a contrarian technical thesis: that self-driving is an AI problem, and Embodied AI will enable autonomy to scale without rules, HD-maps and using mass-produced hardware". Existing investors Balderton Capital (@balderton), Eclipse (@EclipseVentures), and Softbank (@SoftBank) led the latest funding round.