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Steve Jang

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64 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

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.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

Now a lot of things happened since then.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

So they originally had planned it with Travis Kalanick.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

at the helm of the company and then had to jettison that whole business before going public under DARA.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

And I think what DARA did is pick that back up and say, we need to accelerate our strategy.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

So about two years ago, a lot of those plans were put into motion.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

And what was interesting was Neuro was a company that had been

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

One of the few companies like Waymo that have been training around Bay Area streets with their LiDAR and their cameras.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

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.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

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?

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

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.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

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.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

So AGX Thor, which is inside of Neuro, is part of that.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

Right.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

And so what NVIDIA is doing, and it's very smart of NVIDIA, they are selling chips.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

And so what they want to do is sell you a starter kit.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

They want to give you an open source model.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

They want to give you open data sets.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

And they say, go to town.

Bloomberg Tech
Future of Robots on Display at CES

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.

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