Self-driving startup Pony.ai gets funding from FAW

Cockpit screen in a self-driving vehicle — (BLOOMBERG/Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloombe)

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Bloomberg

November 03, 2020 11:35 AM

Self-driving technology startup Pony.ai struck a funding agreement with automaker FAW Group, calling it the first strategic investment by a Chinese state-owned vehicle manufacturer into an autonomous-technology company.

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