What's New In Wuhan? Baidu's Night Robotaxis - Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU)

Baidu, Inc BIDU introduced a robotaxi service for the public in Wuhan between 7 am - 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel.
Previously, Baidu's crewless vehicles could only operate from 9 am - 5 pm in the city, TechCrunch reports.
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The scheme will likely cover one million customers in some regions of Wuhan. The city has more than 10 million people.
Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radars, and lidars to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Tesla Inc's TSLA vision-based solution.
In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates.
One of the moats Baidu built is its visual-language model for identifying unseen or rare objects in long-tail scenarios. The AI is backed by Wenxin, the same large model that undergirds its text-to-image art platform.
The model will enable autonomous vehicles to quickly make sense of an unseen object, like special vehicle (fire truck, ambulance) recognition, plastic bag misdetection, and others," Baidu previously said.
Additionally, Baidu's autonomous driving perception model, a sub-model of the WenXin Big Model, leveraged more than 1 billion parameters to improve the potential of autonomous driving perception.
Price Action: BIDU shares traded higher by 1.86% at $113.69 premarket on the last check Tuesday.
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