What's Next with Balderton: James Wise talks Embodied AI with Wayve's Alex Kendall

Welcome to What's Next with Balderton Capital, where we take a closer look at emerging technologies, the people behind them and the potential impact on our lives.

Wayve has just raised a landmark $1.05 billion Series C round to launch their first Embodied AI solutions for autonomous vehicles. James Wise sat down with co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall to chat about the company's early days, what embodied AI actually is, and why Wayve decided to tackle transportation first.

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[frankdearie]

Bravo to both contributors- well worth a listen

[DanielleNewnham]

This makes me VERY excited about the European tech space

[markusheimerl]

its kind of embarrassing how far behind we are to the US with e.g. Waymo et. al. Biggest problem in Europe is the low availability of enough capital as well as the extreme nepotism and elitism around raising capital. And don't get me started on how little risk European investors can stomach.

[mikeni]

Not sure how I feel about customizing the AI. At the end of the day, if all the cars eventually become autonomous, we don't want them all moving differently. You have that one guy that selects the "slow" setting, driving 65 mph on the high way inner lane is friggin annoying. Rather just have AI decide what is optimal and keep the flow moving. Also it is hard enough to train for a single purpose, to let each individual train their own data is too costly, at least for now. If multiple car companies all let this company train with their customers and cars, who owns the technology and data? The only solution in the end is to open source this like Facebook Llama and destroy the value of self driving software entirely.