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Alex Kendall

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Alex Kendall

@alexgkendall

CEO at @wayve_ai teaching cars how to drive with machine learning 🇳🇿

London, UK

Joined March 2017

Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Oct 3, 2023
Today we're announcing #GAIA1: a 9B parameter world model, trained on 4,700 hours of driving data, able to simulate complex and diverse driving scenes from video, text and action inputs. This model is 480x larger than the preview we shared earlier this year and the results are
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Nov 1, 2022
This year we’ve seen many incredible AI breakthroughs from very large foundation models: CLIP = image/language Stable Diffusion = caption2image GPT-3 = language Whisper = speech2text etc But what does this mean for robotics and autonomous driving?
Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Nov 22, 2018
New paper on 3D object detection from monocular images (with no stereo or lidar)! Using geometry to reason in 3D we obtain state of the art for monocular methods on KITTI. Amazing work lead by Tom Roddick at Cambridge. arxiv.org/abs/1811.08188
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Oct 23, 2023
This is mesmerising! 😎 We're seeing some incredible robust behaviour emerge from our AI Driver. This video shows @wayve_ai's autonomous vehicle driving through London. With no lidar, no HD-maps, no hand-coded rules. Just pure on-board intelligence from our end-to-end neural
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Apr 13, 2018
Big update to our work on multi-task scene understanding to be presented as a spotlight at CVPR this year arxiv.org/abs/1705.07115
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Jun 17, 2024
Today we're announcing PRISM-1🔺a breakthrough in dynamic scene reconstruction. This entire video is *simulated* — for the first time including dynamic and deformable features like cyclists which was the big blocker to simulating the long-tail. Link to blog in thread. ⬇️
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Sep 14, 2023
Language is the future for how we interact with robots. Today @wayve_ai is sharing a first look at LINGO-1, a new vision-language-action AI model. To give you a glimpse of its capabilities, here is a video of me playing with LINGO-1 yesterday morning.
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Nov 29, 2022
I’m often asked how does @wayve_ai use simulation to develop our next-generation autonomous driving? Today we’re unveiling Wayve Infinity Simulator for the first time, which we've been building for the last 5 years:
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Jun 21, 2023
We’ve only had access to GAIA-1 for a few weeks and are discovering new capabilities every day. The results are phenomenal! GAIA isn't just a generative video model, it is a world model, ie. controllable by video, text & action prompts Why is this huge for self driving? Thread:
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Jun 12, 2023
I agree with @ylecun and think autonomous driving is the best place to start. As an example, here's a generated video (this is not real!) from our AI's world model showing it is capable of reasoning and imagining about overtaking a bus.
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Yann LeCun
@ylecun
Jun 11, 2023
Replying to @geoffreyhinton and @AndrewYNg
We all agree that we need to arrive at a consensus on a number of questions. I agree with @geoffreyhinton that LLM have *some* level of understanding and that it is misleading to say they are "just statistics." However, their understanding of the world is very superficial, in
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
May 7, 2024
Today is a significant milestone for @wayve_ai, as we proudly announce our $1.05 billion Series C from @SoftBank_Group, @Microsoft and @nvidia. Since the start we've held a contrarian belief that end-to-end AI will make autonomy possible. I'm excited about this massive
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Jun 9, 2025
Thank you Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer for hosting us at his house, Chequers. Excited for the announcements we'll be making together this week! 🇬🇧 I drove there in our AV without any intervention — until the entrance where I had to intervene to be searched by security 😁
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
Oct 4, 2023
What’s exciting about #GAIA1 is that it's not just a simulation, but a full world model that understands how the world works Here's two different futures where a reversing car (1) pulls off the street or (2) pulls out suddenly requiring us to brake More of my fav examples in 🧵
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Alex Kendall
@alexgkendall
May 1, 2025
Here's my favourite scenario from autonomous driving in Tokyo last week! 🇯🇵
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