Wayve

Wayve develops software for self driving cars. Alex Kendall and Amar Shah founded the company in 2017 out of the University of Cambridge. It is based in London.

Wayve takes an approach often called embodied AI. Rather than coding many separate rules for each driving situation, it trains a single model on large amounts of driving data. The model learns to drive from camera images and can adapt to new cities without high definition maps. The company also builds simulation tools that generate driving scenes for training and testing.

Wayve plans to license its software to carmakers, so that they can add driver assistance and later self driving features to their cars. It has tested vehicles in the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and Japan. It has also worked with delivery companies and with Uber on robotaxi trials. Alex Kendall is chief executive. The company has raised several funding rounds and remains privately held.