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Baidu unveils vehicle manufacturing partners, declares Apollo the ‘Android of the autonomous driving industry’

As expected, Baidu today announced partners for its Project Apollo autonomous driving platform. The most important names listed were the vehicle manufacturers: Chery, FAW Group, Changan Automobile, Daimler, Ford, and Great Wall Motors. Qi Lu, Baidu’s group president and COO, made the announcement in Beijing at the company’s AI developer conference Baidu Create.

Baidu first unveiled its Silicon Valley arm dedicated to self-driving cars in April 2016. A year later, the company snatched up a U.S. computer vision firm and launched Project Apollo, promising to start testing self-driving cars on urban roads by 2018, followed by highways and open city roads by 2020. Today, the company’s timeline shifted to “fully autonomous driving on urban roads and highways by the end of 2020,” underlining the complexity of the task at hand.

Baidu today shared that “more than 50 partners” have joined the Apollo autonomous driving project — we counted a total of 53 on the project’s website. A company spokesperson explained that while a few existing partners were already working with Baidu on a strategic level, they are now…

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