End to end learning

Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work

Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work

Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov outlines seven crucial lessons from fifteen years of developing and scaling the Waymo Driver, the world's most advanced physical AI. He details the unique challenges of physical AI compared to digital, emphasizing the critical role of reliability, strategic technology choices, continuous innovation through foundation models, structure-augmented learning, high-fidelity simulation, AI flywheels, and robust evaluation frameworks to achieve superhuman safety and build trust in real-world autonomous systems.

Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov: 20 Million Rides and the Road to Full Autonomy

Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov: 20 Million Rides and the Road to Full Autonomy

Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, discusses the 20-year journey from the DARPA challenge to full autonomy. He explains the Waymo Foundation Model—a multimodal world action model powering the driver, simulator, and critic—and how their "end-to-end plus" architecture enables superhuman safety and exponential scaling.

Why Uber, Nissan, and Mercedes Chose This Self-Driving Startup | Alex Kendall, Wayve

Why Uber, Nissan, and Mercedes Chose This Self-Driving Startup | Alex Kendall, Wayve

Wayve CEO Alex Kendall discusses their contrarian, AI-first approach to autonomous driving. He explains their journey from a garage prototype using reinforcement learning to developing a generalizable AI driver that has driven zero-shot in over 500 cities. Kendall emphasizes a strategy focused on licensing this embodied AI for mass-market consumer vehicles—a 100-million-unit-per-year opportunity—rather than building bespoke robotaxis, arguing that the future is an AI that can drive any car, anywhere.

How End-to-End Learning Created Autonomous Driving 2.0: Wayve CEO Alex Kendall

How End-to-End Learning Created Autonomous Driving 2.0: Wayve CEO Alex Kendall

Alex Kendall, CEO of Wayve, discusses the architectural shift from AV 1.0's hand-engineered robotics to AV 2.0's end-to-end deep learning. He explains how Wayve's generalization-first approach, powered by world models and diverse data, allows them to scale across hundreds of cities and multiple automotive OEMs, creating a path toward a general-purpose embodied AI foundation model.