Tencent Holdings to focus on development of Artificial Intelligence
Internet giant Tencent Holdings has formed an alliance with a clutch of industry players including Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) to ramp up development and tech transfer of artificial intelligence (AI) that is used in autonomous driving. The partnership doesn’t restrict itself to just support the research for self-driving but also the manufacturing of related products in future.
The company aims on delivering a certain number of cars by 2020 supported by the latest developments in the Advance Driver Assistant System.
According to Chen Juhong, Vice President –
Tencent hopes to make an all-out effort to reinforce the development of AI technologies used in autonomous driving, We want to be a ‘connector’ to help accelerate cooperation, innovation and industry convergence, contributing our humble efforts to the growth of the whole industry.