Didi Chuxing Teams with NVIDIA for Autonomous Driving and Cloud Computing
December 17 2019 - 11:02PM
GTC China -- NVIDIA and Didi Chuxing (DiDi),
the world’s leading mobile transportation platform, today announced
that DiDi will leverage NVIDIA GPUs and AI technology to develop
autonomous driving and cloud computing solutions.
DiDi will use NVIDIA® GPUs in the data center for training
machine learning algorithms and NVIDIA DRIVE™ for inference on its
Level 4 autonomous driving vehicles. In August, DiDi upgraded its
autonomous driving unit into an independent company and began a
wide range of collaborations with industry partners.
As part of the centralized AI processing of DiDi’s autonomous
vehicles, NVIDIA DRIVE enables data to be fused from all types of
sensors (cameras, lidar, radar, etc.) using numerous deep neural
networks (DNNs) to understand the 360-degree environment
surrounding the car and plan a safe path forward.
“Developing safe autonomous vehicles requires end-to-end AI, in
the cloud and in the car,” said Rishi Dhall, vice president of
Autonomous Vehicles at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA AI will enable DiDi to
develop safer, more efficient transportation systems and deliver a
broad range of cloud services.”
To train these DNNs, DiDi will use NVIDIA GPU data center
servers. For cloud computing, DiDi will also build an AI
infrastructure and launch virtual GPU (vGPU) cloud servers for
computing, rendering and gaming.
DiDi Cloud will adopt a new vGPU license mode to provide users
with better experiences, richer application scenarios and more
efficient, flexible GPU cloud computing services. Currently, DiDi
Cloud is collaborating with industry partners including NVIDIA to
provide services in transportation, AI, graphics rendering, video
games and education.
Delivering 10 billion passenger trips per year, DiDi is working
toward the safe, large-scale application of autonomous driving
technology, leveraging its own technology capacities, data
resources and open collaboration with tech leaders and OEM
partners.
About Didi ChuxingDidi Chuxing (“DiDi”) is the
world’s leading mobile transportation platform. The company offers
a full range of app-based transportation services for 550 million
users across Asia, Latin America and Australia, including Taxi,
Express, Premier, Luxe, Bus, Designated Driving, Enterprise
Solutions, Bike Sharing, E-bike Sharing, Automobile Solutions and
Food Delivery. Tens of millions of drivers who find flexible work
opportunities on the DiDi platform provide 10 billion passenger
trips a year.
DiDi is committed to collaborating with policymakers, the taxi
industry, the automobile industry and communities to solve the
world’s transportation, environmental and employment challenges
with localized smart transportation innovations by leveraging its
AI capabilities. By continuously improving user experience and
creating social value, DiDi strives to build a safe, inclusive and
sustainable mobile transportation ecosystem for cities of the
future.
For more information, visit www.didiglobal.com/news.
About NVIDIA NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market,
redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel
computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the
next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of
computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and
understand the world. More information at
http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
For further information, contact:Marie LabriePR
Manager, AutomotiveNVIDIA Corporation
+1-408-921-6987mlabrie@nvidia.com
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limited to, statements as to: DiDi developing autonomous driving
and cloud computing solutions built on NVIDIA AI technology,
including the use of NVIDIA GPUs in the data center for training
machine learning algorithms and NVIDIA DRIVE for inference on its
Level 4 autonomous driving platform; the impact and benefits of
NVIDIA DRIVE and NVIDIA AI; developing safe autonomous vehicles
requiring AI end to end, in the cloud and in the car; and DiDi
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