Overview of the Microsoft Corporation headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France, April 18, 2016. REUTERS / Charles Platiau
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LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) – Britain’s startup Wayve said on Wednesday it would use a supercomputer infrastructure designed for the company by its investor Microsoft (MSFT.O) to process vast amounts of data while developing machine-based learning models. self driving cars.
Wayve’s technology relies on machine learning using camera sensors mounted on the outside of the vehicle, where the system learns from traffic patterns and the behavior of other drivers, instead of the conventional method relying on detailed digital maps and coding to tell the vehicles how to work.
“Microsoft provides muscle for supercomputers,” Wayve CEO Alex Kendall told Reuters. “What we are looking to do is beyond what is possible for cloud shopping today.”
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Kendall said Microsoft will be able to process terabytes of data – 1 trillion bytes, or the equivalent of about an hour of consumer video – that Wayve cars generate every minute.
This will help the startup as it expands its self-driving technology to test vehicles to deliver the last mile with the British online food company Ocado (OCDO.L) and the supermarket chain Asda.
These food delivery tests will begin this year with an on-board safety operator.
“We see this as a proposal for a merchant navy,” he said. “This is how we think autonomy will come on the market first.
Earlier this year, Microsoft participated in the $ 200 million funding round of the London-based Series B startup. Read more
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Report by Nick Carey; Edited by Ian Harvey
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