Khosrowshahi: Uber has over 30 autonomous vehicle partnerships
Dara Khosrowshahi · Uber CEO on AI, Autonomous Vehicles, and the Future of Transportation · Invest Like The Best · Jun 3, 2026 · at 24:19
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi discusses Uber's ecosystem strategy for autonomous vehicles, naming partners such as Waymo, Nuro, Lucid, Nvidia, and Waabi.
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“So we've got over 30 partnerships now with incredible partners like a Waymo to a Neuro and Lucid to an NVIDIA that is building not just compute and sensors, but also a software driver now to companies like Wabi and Wave, WeRides of the World, Pony AIs of the World”
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