Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is looking for ways to buy American ARM Chinese Autonomous Pony AIAccording to the New York Times. Kalanick allegedly works with investors to finance acquisition, and Uber can even help the transaction happen, time reports.
Pony went public last year And he had a market hat of about $ 4.5 billion before the new York Times report was published. The report says that the Pony started preparing its American hand for sale or spinoff in 2022. years, down to create a “fork” version of its original code.
The acquisition of ponies and would lead to Kalanicka back into the world of self-government vehicles since the Uber in 2017. Years.
Uber worked at the own autonomous technology technology of the vehicle at the time. 2018 years of one of its test vehicles killed pedestrians in Arizona. The replacement of Kalanikova, Dara Khosrovshahi, ultimately sold Uberovo Selid Division to Autonomous Transport Startup Aurora. Under Khosrovshahi, Uber took a partnership approach, bringing cars with self-driving on his company platform like Waymo.
Kalanick has increased robotics in recent years as he led his kitchen with the Holly Cloudkitchens. He would still continue to launch Cloudkitchens a day-day if he bought Pony Ai.
In March, Kalanick said at the event That Uber was “really just for Waymo, but he probably made up for” at the time that he pushed him out of Uber. (Uber and Waymo eventually locked in the legal battle due to autonomous trading secrets related to vehicles In the end she calmed down.) As for the decision of Khosrovshahija to sell the department, Kalanick said, “I didn’t guide the company when it happened, but you know, you could say autonomous driving sharing products. That would be great.” That would be great. ” “
