By Nick Carey
作者：尼克·凯里
London, May 7 (Reuters) - British Self-Driving Technology Startup Wayve Said on Tuesday It Has Raised $1.05 Billion in a Funding Round Led by SoftBank Group 9984.t to Accelerate the Development and Launch in Production-Model Vehicles of Its Embodied AI Technology That Can Learn From and Adapt to Human Behavior.
伦敦，5月7日（路透社）— 英国自动驾驶技术初创公司Wayve周二表示，它已在软银集团牵头的一轮融资中筹集了10.5亿美元 9984.t 加快其可学习和适应人类行为的嵌入式人工智能技术的开发和在量产车中推出。
Nvidia Nvda.o Also Contributed in the Series C Funding Round as a New Investor, as Did Existing Investor Microsoft Msft.o.
英伟达 nvda.o 与现有投资者微软一样，也作为新投资者参与了C轮融资 msft.o。
The Latest Funding Brings Wayve's Total Funds Raised to Just Over $1.3 Billion and Marks the Largest Investment yet in a British Startup Focused on Artificial-Intelligence Technology.
最新融资使Wayve筹集的资金总额略高于13亿美元，这是迄今为止对一家专注于人工智能技术的英国初创公司的最大一笔投资。
In a Statement, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Hailed the Funding Round as "a Testament to Our Leadership in This
英国首相里希·苏纳克在一份声明中称赞本轮融资 “证明了我们在这方面的领导地位”
Industry, and That Our Plan for the (UK) Economy Is Working."
工业，而且我们的（英国）经济计划正在奏效。”
Founded in 2017, Wayve's Autonomous Driving Technology Uses AI That the Startup Says Will Enable Vehicles to "Navigate Situations That Do Not Follow Strict Patterns or Rules, Such as Unexpected Actions by Drivers, Pedestrians, or Environmental Elements."
Wayve的自动驾驶技术成立于2017年，使用人工智能，这家初创公司称这将使车辆 “驾驭不遵循严格模式或规则的情况，例如驾驶员、行人的意外行为或环境因素”。
"This Will Enable Automakers and Fleets to Accelerate Their Transition From Assisted to Autonomous Driving," Wayve CEO Alex Kendall Told Reuters.
Wayve首席执行官亚历克斯·肯德尔告诉路透社：“这将使汽车制造商和车队能够加快从辅助驾驶到自动驾驶的过渡。”
The Startup's Technology Is Currently Integrated Into Six Different Vehicle Platforms Including Electric Vehicles Like the Jaguar I-Pace and Ford Mustang Mache as Part of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (Adas), Kendall Said. as the Self-Driving Technology Advances, Wayve's AI Will Be Upgraded Using Over-the-Air Software Updates.
肯德尔说，这家初创公司的技术目前已集成到六个不同的汽车平台中，包括捷豹I-Pace和福特野马马奇等电动汽车，作为高级驾驶辅助系统（Adas）的一部分。随着自动驾驶技术的进步，Wayve的人工智能将使用空中软件更新进行升级。
The Problem Faced by Robotaxi Startups and Other Self-Driving Companies Is That Developing Vehicles That Can Truly Drive Themselves Has Proven More Difficult Than Originally Imagined.
Robotaxi初创公司和其他自动驾驶公司面临的问题是，事实证明，开发能够真正自行驾驶的车辆比最初想象的要困难得多。
Among the Main Challenges Is That Self-Driving Software Systems Have Simply Lacked Humans' Ability to Predict and Assess Risk Quickly, Especially When Encountering Unexpected Incidents or "Edge Cases."
主要挑战之一是，自动驾驶软件系统根本缺乏人类快速预测和评估风险的能力，尤其是在遇到意外事件或”边缘保护壳。”
As the Scale of That Challenge Has Become Clear, Major Investments in Autonomous Startups Like Wayve Are Increasingly Rare.
随着这一挑战的规模变得明显，对像Wayve这样的自主创业公司的重大投资越来越罕见。
Wayve President Erez Dagan Told Reuters the Company's Technology Is "Built to Generalize Its Driving Knowledge From One Scenario to Another... Because It's Nearly Impossible to Imagine Every Situation That a Self-Driving Car Needs to Reliably Handle."
Wayve总裁埃雷兹·达根告诉路透社，该公司的技术 “旨在将其驾驶知识从一种情景推广到另一种情景...因为几乎不可能想象自动驾驶汽车需要可靠处理的每种情况。”
"by Leveraging the Raw Power of AI, We Can Build an Embodied AI System That's Learned From Real-World and Synthetic Data How to Handle Edge Cases at a Rate That Surpasses Human Programming," He Added.
他补充说：“通过利用人工智能的原始力量，我们可以构建一个具体的人工智能系统，该系统从现实世界和合成数据中学习如何以超过人类编程的速度处理边缘案例。”
(Reporting by Nick Carey in London
Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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