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Baidu Apollo World — Baidu Apollo World Model

Fact

Baidu’s world model creates road scenes for self-driving car training and testing.

In Plain Words

It is a driving school with zero real crashes. A car can face rain, traffic cuts, and a kid chasing a ball.

It makes camera and lidar views as the car moves. Robotaxis use these scenes to practice and get tested.

Related Concepts

World model
It turns roads into a virtual world cars can interact with.

Robotaxi
It creates hard road scenes for robotaxis to practice and get tested.

Multimodal AI
It produces camera and lidar views in real time.