Self-Driving Startup, Wayve, Partners with Microsoft to Power its Machine Learning Data

The self-driving startup, Wayve, partnered with the tech giant Microsoft, which is also one of its biggest investors, to power its machine learning tech.

The United Kingdom-based startup announced that Microsoft is helping Wayve with its machine learning-based self-driving project.

Self-Driving Startup Wayve

As per a news story by Reuters, the self-driving startup plans to introduce autonomous vehicles that primarily rely on machine learning with the help of a few camera sensors installed.

The machine learning system seeks to learn both the behavior of other drivers on the road and the general traffic patterns to make the vehicle drive autonomously.

It bids to go away from what the current self-driving cars do. Autonomous vehicles these days typically use digital maps with the guidance of some coding to control them without any human person behind the wheel.

Essentially, Wayve plans to offer self-driving vehicles, which go free from laser imaging detection and ranging sensors or LiDAR.

Wayve and Microsoft

To make the machine learning-based tech of the British startup a reality, it needs an ultra-powerful computer to process the vast data that it relies on.

The Chief Executive Officer or CEO of Wayve, Alex Kendall, himself announced that it has tapped one of its investors, Microsoft, to make its unconventional self-driving tech possible.

The Wayve CEO said in an interview with Reuters that "Microsoft is providing supercomputing muscle" to help in processing the data for its machine learning.

The tech exec, Kendall, further added that what they are "looking to do goes beyond the bounds of what's possible for commercial cloud offerings today."

To be more precise, the Wayve boss shared that the tech giant, Microsoft, will help the startup process roughly around one terabyte of data every minute.

The chief executive went on to reveal that Wayve cars need to process 1 trillion bytes of data in merely 60 seconds.

That said, the British startup sure needs the help of a big firm like Microsoft to power up its machine learning endeavor, which should revolutionize self-driving cars in the future.

According to a recent report by CNBC, the autonomous driving startup is being backed by renowned brands in the business, such as Virgin and Microsoft.

The news outlet said that Wayve has yet to disclose its new valuation after the giant investors came in. However, CNBC suggests that it could likely go as high as $1 billion.

Wayve Self-Driving Cars

The UK-based startup is gearing up its sleeves to start its self-driving tech trials soon.

It plans to test out Microsoft's supercomputing for its delivery cars for the supermarket brand Asda and the grocery tech firm Ocado.

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Written by Teejay Boris