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Baidu Alliance to Vie with Waymo’s Self-Driving Car System

Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. has formed an alliance with 50 partners to tout its Apollo self-driving-car platform as a rival to the autonomous-car system being developed by Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit.

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Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. has formed an alliance with 50 partners to tout its Apollo self-driving-car platform as a rival to the autonomous-car system being developed by Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit.

The alliance includes carmakers BAIC, Chery, Chongqing Changan, Daimler, FAW, Ford and Great Wall. The group also includes universities, municipalities, startups and such suppliers as Bosch, Continental, Delphi, Intel, Nvidia and ZF.

Baidu developed the Apollo system at the company’s tech center in Silicon Valley. The partnership hopes to put the Apollo system into production cars in China, which currently prohibits driverless cars, by 2019.

Chery Automobile is already testing Baidu’s technology in several cars in China, according to Reuters. The news service says the two companies met last month in California to sign an agreement to co-develop internet-connected “intelligent” vehicles.

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