Didi beat Uber in China and now it's opening an R&D center on its turf

Didi Chuxing, the ride-hail app that bought Uber’s Chinese business last summer after a lengthy and expensive battle, is now opening an R&D center in Uber’s backyard. Didi Labs will be based in Mountain View, California and will be focused on hiring (and probably poaching) top engineering talent to work on artificial intelligence and self-driving car technology.
The Beijing-based company doesn’t have any plans to launch a rival service in the US, but the opening of a Silico