It’s incredible to reflect on how far we’ve come in three years and how close we are to achieving a fully driverless future. We’ve been documenting our journey, capturing some of the most exciting moments and breakthroughs along the way. Today, as we celebrate our latest milestone, we’re excited to share a glimpse of the behind the scenes with our dedicated team, innovative technology, and the passion that drives us forward in our documentary: Road to Texas. Watch it here!
About us
Waabi, founded by AI pioneer and visionary Raquel Urtasun, is an AI company building the next generation of self-driving technology. With a world class team and an innovative approach that unleashes the power of AI to “drive” safely in the real world, Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before. Waabi is backed by best-in-class investors across the technology, logistics and the Canadian innovation ecosystem, including Khosla Ventures, Uber, 8VC, Radical Ventures, OMERS Ventures and BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund. To learn more visit: waabi.ai Press: press@waabi.ai Business: partnership@waabi.ai
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http://www.waabi.ai
External link for Waabi
- Industry
- Truck Transportation
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Toronto
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2021
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Toronto, CA
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San Francisco, California, US
Employees at Waabi
Updates
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Our founder and CEO Raquel Urtasun has been studying AI for decades. Now, at Waabi, she's spearheading generative AI’s proliferation into the physical world by building safer and more capital-efficient self-driving technology. In the latest episode of Forbes new Scaling AI series, Raquel discusses how she built Waabi, what makes our approach to simulation unique, and how our technology will solve supply chain challenges and much more. Find out how Waabi is leveraging generative AI to create a better world for generations to come: https://lnkd.in/e5keAgGz
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We’re proud to be among the most innovative technology companies shaping the future of freight in FreightWaves’ seventh annual FreightTech 100 List for 2025! 🎉 A more efficient and resilient supply chain is just around the corner – and Waabi is leading the way by bringing generative AI to the physical world with scalable autonomous trucking technology. See the full list of honorees reshaping logistics with cutting-edge innovation: https://lnkd.in/gkSxuiSy
2025 FreightTech 100: Who leads the pack in freight innovation? - FreightWaves
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Generative AI has ignited a technical revolution, taking text, video, and image generation to new heights. But what comes next? Our CEO Raquel Urtasun recently discussed the next frontier of generative AI at the MIT Mobility Initiative, sharing her thoughts on how new developments in the sector will pave the way for highly intelligent and powerful robots, including safer, smarter, and more efficient self-driving vehicles. Discover how generative AI is impacting the physical world in the full lecture here: https://lnkd.in/eA9ygpu5
Bringing Generative AI to the Physical World : Insights from Waabi
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This week, we’re celebrating another milestone. Our CEO Raquel Urtasun was just named a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada | La Société royale du Canada for her tremendous contributions to the field of computer science, throughout her academic career at University of Toronto and her leadership at Waabi. 🇨🇦 We’re proud to see Raquel recognized for her innovative efforts with the nation’s most distinguished academic honour and to help realize Raquel’s extraordinary vision of bringing AI into the physical world. Please join us in congratulating Raquel on this remarkable achievement! https://lnkd.in/dY44VMMp
Professor Raquel Urtasun named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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Learn how Waabi is embracing #generativeAI and NVIDIA technology to deliver self-driving vehicles at scale, starting with the long-haul trucking sector. https://nvda.ws/4bvCJOk
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We had a blast at CVPR in Seattle last month! In case you missed it, you can watch our full day tutorial on “All You Need to Know about Self-Driving”, now available on YouTube. This tutorial was updated this year to include modern advances in AI for self-driving including world models for driving, driving with LLMs, fast sensor simulation with Gaussian Splatting, language-guided actor behaviors, and more. We also discussed open- vs. closed-loop training and evaluation and recent advances in diffusion models. Let us know what you think! ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eU9k-4N9
CVPR 2024
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Rebecca Bellan from TechCrunch sat down with our founder and CEO Raquel Urtasun to learn more about our $200M Series B funding and how we’re using it to make self-driving trucks safer, smarter, and more scalable with our revolutionary generative AI technology, and so much more. “‘This technology is extremely, extremely powerful,’ said Urtasun… ‘It has this amazing ability to generalize, it’s very flexible, and it’s very fast to develop. And it’s something that we can expand to do much more than trucking in the future … This could be robotaxis. This could be humanoids or warehouse robotics. This technology can solve any of those use cases.’” Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/euJF3-dS
Waabi’s GenAI promises to do so much more than power self-driving trucks | TechCrunch
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🚀 Advances in AI over recent years have been nothing short of remarkable. We’ve witnessed AI ace the Bar exam, produce highly sophisticated and life-like images, audio and videos, as well as transform productivity across many industries. But we’ve only scratched the surface. The next leap will see generative AI move from the virtual world into the physical world, unlocking unprecedented efficiencies, enhancing safety, and creating opportunities we can only begin to imagine. Our CEO Raquel Urtasun shared her reflections on what’s necessary to deliver this future and the pioneering role that Waabi will play. Check it out here! https://lnkd.in/em8BMGwQ
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Yet another leap forward for Waabi! Today we are announcing that we have raised $200M (USD) in an oversubscribed Series B round, led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, to launch fully driverless, generative AI-powered autonomous trucks in 2025. 🚚 🎉 Only three years on from our launch, we are already on the verge of reaching Level 4 autonomy. This industry-leading pace and capital efficiency is made possible through our revolutionary approach to unleashing generative AI in the physical world. The incredible list of investors who have joined us on this round represent pioneers and trailblazers across deep tech, AI, automotive, as well as shipping and logistics ecosystems including NVIDIA, Volvo Group, Porsche Automobil Holding SE, Scania Group, Ingka Investments, HarbourVest Partners, G2 Venture Partners, BDC Capital (Canada), Export Development Canada | Exportation et développement Canada, Radical Ventures, Incharge Capital Partners, and others. A huge thank you to all our investors, partners, customers, and our incredible team for helping us achieve this milestone! Can’t wait for what’s ahead! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ea2pEXtr
Waabi Raises $200M USD to Launch Fully Driverless Trucks in 2025
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