Chinese corporation Alibaba partners with the electric car startup Xpeng on tech for driverless cars

August 4, 2022: -On Tuesday, the two groups stated that Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and electric car startup Xpeng opened a computing center to train software for driverless cars.

Autonomous driving systems require extensive amounts of data to be processed to train algorithms.

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

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

Alibaba has been attempting to bolster its cloud computing division with a deceleration in its nature commerce business. The move highlights China’s technology giants attempting to expand into the fast-growing electric vehicle space.

When joining the Chinese market, Tencent attempts to set itself as the go-to technology company for foreign automakers to use for some automotive technology-related services.

For Xpeng, the move marks its ambitions to stretch ahead in China’s fiercely competitive electric vehicle market and attempt to challenge giants.

Tesla and Warren Buffett-backed BYD. China’s electric vehicle startups, from Nio to Xpeng, see independent driving features as a way to do that.

Xpeng has an advanced driver-assistance system, or ADAS, called XPILOT installed in some of its vehicles. Users who opt for this feature can get autonomous features like automatic lane switching.

In the previous year, Xpeng launched the City NGP, the navigation-guided pilot. The system permits Xpeng’s cars to change lanes, speed up or slow down, overtake, and enter and exit highways. Formerly, the system was created just for streets, but currently for cities.

Xpeng has positioned itself more as a technology company than an automaker and has helped robotics and flying passenger drones.

For the most part, Chinese regulators maintain been quite encouraging of autonomous driving technology. Various municipalities all over the country have allowed trained driverless automobile companies to test and even find robotaxi services.