Steve Jang
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Sure, so if you rewind time and you look at the history of Uber, you'll remember 10 years ago Uber had announced that they were going to invest in self-driving car technology.
Now a lot of things happened since then.
So they originally had planned it with Travis Kalanick.
at the helm of the company and then had to jettison that whole business before going public under DARA.
And I think what DARA did is pick that back up and say, we need to accelerate our strategy.
So about two years ago, a lot of those plans were put into motion.
And what was interesting was Neuro was a company that had been
One of the few companies like Waymo that have been training around Bay Area streets with their LiDAR and their cameras.
And they recently launched a autonomy intelligence platform, which is basically an operating system to allow any third-party automaker to have self-driving capabilities.
And so what you saw here was a great launch between Nuro, Lucid, and Uber to not only fit, retrofit a Lucid car with autonomy, full level four, not 8S, right?
Not level two plus plus assistance, but full self-driving capability like Waymo and Tesla FSD, and launch that with Lucid on the Uber network.
So you'll be able to open up your Uber app at the end of this year in the Bay Area and be able to take a self-driving car.
So AGX Thor, which is inside of Neuro, is part of that.
And so what NVIDIA is doing, and it's very smart of NVIDIA, they are selling chips.
And so what they want to do is sell you a starter kit.
They want to give you an open source model.
They want to give you open data sets.
And they say, go to town.
We want you to build a self-driving car platform to fit these cars, to fit your ride sharing or delivery network, your logistics network.