Tencent forms alliance to develop artificial intelligence in self-driving vehicles

Tencent has formed an alliance with prominent industry players to explore the development of artificial intelligence (AI) that is used in autonomous driving in China, to keep up with rivals Baidu and Alibaba’s work in the self-driving industry.
The alliance includes the likes of Stanford University professor Sebastian Thrun, famously known as ‘the father of Google’s self-driving car’, Li Bin, founder and chairman of Chinese electric carmaker Nio and Stefan Greiner, direct