JIDU Auto, also known as Ji Yue, is an intelligent electric vehicle company backed by Baidu and Geely. It focuses on developing "robocars" with Level 4 autonomous driving capabilities, utilizing Baidu's Apollo autonomous driving system and Geely's electric vehicle platform. Their vehicles feature advanced AI, voice-activated control systems, and intelligent cockpits. JIDU aims to mass-produce vehicles with SAE L4 autonomous driving technology.
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JIDU was established in March 2021 and received over $300,000,000 in start-up capital at formation.
JIDU closed a Series A financing round raising nearly $400,000,000.
A mass-produced model of JIDU’s Robocar is set to be launched in 2023.
JiDU plans mass production and delivery of its first production vehicle model by 2023.
The JiDU intelligent driving system is powered by Baidu’s autonomous driving computing platform using NVIDIA DRIVE Orin.