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Waabi unveils autonomous truck made in partnership with Volvo

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Self-driving truck startup Waabi shared Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt the launch of a new autonomous truck made in partnership with Volvo, the Volvo VNL Autonomous truck. The unveiling comes eight months since the Uber- and Nvidia-backed startup announced it was partnering with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to build a custom-built truck based on Volvo’s autonomy platform […]

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Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO

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Self-driving truck maker Waabi has hired autonomous vehicle industry veteran and Uber Freight CEO, Lior Ron, to step in as chief operating officer, as the startup looks to scale its commercial operations ahead of its planned launch of driverless trucks on public highways later this year. Rebecca Tinucci, who previously spent six years building Tesla’s

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Waabi and Volvo team up to build self-driving trucks at scale

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Self-driving truck startup Waabi is partnering with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to jointly develop and deploy autonomous trucks, an important milestone as it gets closer to a commercial launch.  The tie up also marks Volvo’s second partnership to co-develop self-driving big rigs with a startup partner. In May 2024, Volvo teamed up with Aurora Innovation to

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Waabi is taking generative AI into the physical world with autonomous long-haul trucks

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This week on Found, we’re diving into the future of trucking with Raquel Urtasun, CEO and co-founder of Wabi, a company pioneering driverless, long-haul trucks powered by generative AI. Hosts Dominic-Madori Davis and Becca Szkutak learn about Waabi’s unique simulation-based training and how this approach is intended to minimize mistakes once the massive trucks hit

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Waabi’s genAI promises to do so much more than power self-driving trucks

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For the last two decades, Raquel Urtasun, founder and CEO of autonomous trucking startup Waabi, has been developing AI systems that can reason as a human would.  The AI pioneer had previously served as the chief scientist at Uber ATG before launching Waabi in 2021. Waabi launched with an “AI-first approach” to speed up the

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