Aug 03, 2026

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.

Nov 06, 2025

Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent Vanhoucke

Waymo Distinguished Engineer Vincent Vanhoucke discusses the core challenges of autonomous driving, explaining how Waymo fuses data from cameras, LiDAR, and radar to build a robust perception system. He delves into the "closed-loop" problem, the critical role of generative AI and simulation in training and validation, and how modern multimodal models are used in a teacher-student framework to distill vast world knowledge into the vehicle's onboard system, aiming for a safety standard that surpasses human performance.