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Alibaba Teams Up With Xpeng To Open A Computing Center For Training Driverless Cars
Published on: 2022-08-08
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and electric vehicle startup Xpeng are opening a computing center to train software for driverless cars, the two companies said Tuesday.
 

Autonomous driving systems require huge amounts of data to be processed in order to train algorithms.
 

Xpeng claims that the new computing center will reduce the training time for its core autonomous driving model from seven days to within an hour.
 

The Guangzhou-headquartered company will use technology from Alibaba’s cloud division for its computing needs. The computing center called Fuyao will be located in the region of Inner Mongolia in northern China.
 

Alibaba, an investor in Xpeng, has been trying to bolster its cloud computing division amid a slowdown in its core commerce business. The move also highlights how China’s technology giants are trying to jump into the fast-growing electric vehicle space.
 

Tencent, for example, is trying to position itself as the go-to technology company for foreign automakers to use for various automotive technology-related services when they enter the Chinese market.
 

For Xpeng, the move marks its ambitions to pull ahead in the fiercely competitive electric vehicle market in China and attempt to challenge giants Tesla and Warren Buffett-backed BYD. China’s electric vehicle startups from Nio to Xpeng see autonomous driving features as a way to do that.
 

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