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Baidu Tests a New Way to Train Robotaxis

11.05

SHENZHEN, China — Nov. 3: Baidu’s Apollo unit unveiled Apollo World, an agent-driven multimodal world model for physical AI, at its AI Day event in Shenzhen.

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