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MC, have a look at Xilinx as well. They were also working with Mercedes and were in their previous concept car. I thought Cerence were involved as well. I think there are many bits and pieces to the puzzle. For example both Valeo and Luminor are involved and they both do Lidar. I posted about them all about a week ago but it’s a bit jumbled to get my head around without definite info from MB which isn’t going to happen.Funny you just posted this Dingo I was just reading an article about it from 2020....................I actually think they didn't ditch NVIDIA but rather engaged them to help integrate AKIDA.
According to the company (BRN), Mercedes was one of the EAPs (from memory?) and since MERCEDES decided to mention BRN by name recently in their concept car, I would say Mercedes is very confident in the technology, and hence, very likely going to use the technology in future.
Mercedes would have known about BRN for a while, so the article below (and the partnership between Merc and NVIDIA) I reckon floated round about the time Mercedes decided BRN was a winner. NVIDIA helps with the software integration with BRNs tech, everyone wins.
I find it hard to believe Mercedes would engage NVIDIA in June 2020 for this when they likely already knew about BRN unless it was complimentary.
So to me, this is possibly a good indication we are indeed also working with NVIDIA (on some level).
PURE SPECULATION
Mercedes-Benz, NVIDIA to create new software-defined architecture to enable autonomous driving
Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA have announced that they will work together to create a 'revolutionary' in-vehicle computing system and artificial intelligence (AI) computing infrastructure. Expected to be rolled out across the fleet of next-generation Mercedes-Benz vehicles starting in 2024, the...www.auvsi.org
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The good news is that MB decided we were top of class and hopefully will be included in lots of systems. Obvious reasons: power saving, no cloud, one shot learning and inference.
Can’t wait until Akida becomes the de-facto standard and all car manufacturers get onboard as per the white paper Rob liked recently.
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