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Tesla, Inc. is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company that entered autonomous mobility with its robotaxi business: it launched paid robotaxi service in Austin, Texas in June 2025, began removing safety drivers from January 2026 and expanded to Houston and Dallas, while its paid rides in the California Bay Area still require a safety driver under state rules.
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DiDi Autonomous Driving is DiDi's Level 4 autonomous driving company. It was spun off as an independent company in August 2019 with DiDi co-founder Zhang Bo as CEO, and runs robotaxi testing and commercial operations in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou under a "mixed dispatch" model.
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Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) is Baidu Apollo's Level 4 autonomous ride-hailing platform. Launched on 18 August 2021, it lets riders hail driverless taxis without a safety driver inside designated operating areas and pay as with a normal ride-hailing trip; by July 2026 it operated in 27 cities worldwide and had provided more than 22 million rides.
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Momenta (魔门塔), founded in 2016 by Cao Xudong, is an intelligent driving company pursuing a "one flywheel, two legs" strategy that combines mass-production assisted driving (Mpilot) with fully autonomous driving products (MSD). Its customers include BYD, SAIC, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, Honda and GM, and its Robotaxi business works with platforms such as Uber and Grab.
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T3 Go (T3出行) is a smart mobility platform built by Nanjing Lingxing Technology Co., Ltd., initiated by China FAW, Dongfeng Motor and Changan Automobile with joint investment from Tencent, Alibaba and others. Founded in 2019, it serves close to 200 cities in China and deploys Robotaxi test fleets in Nanjing and Suzhou through an "operations platform plus technology partner" model.
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Xiangdao Mobility (享道出行) is a smart mobility platform controlled by SAIC Group (SAIC Motor Corporation). It offers ride-hailing, vehicle leasing, vehicle sales and Robotaxi services; its "Xiangdao Robotaxi" has been operating since 2021, providing Level 4 service in pilot areas of Shanghai and Suzhou in deep cooperation with solution providers such as Momenta.
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A robotaxi is a taxi service in which an automated driving system performs the entire dynamic driving task: passengers hail the vehicle through a mobile app and pay as for a licensed taxi. Commercial fleets at scale carry no safety driver and operate only within government-permitted areas.
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Lou Tiancheng (born 1986), a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, is co-founder and chief technology officer of Pony AI. A member of the first cohort of Tsinghua University's Yao Class and a doctoral student of Turing Award laureate Andrew Yao, he competed under the handle "ACRush" and was Baidu's youngest ever T10 engineer.
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Wang Yunpeng (born March 1976) is Vice President of Baidu Group and head of Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group (IDG). He joined Baidu in 2012, has led autonomous driving technology since 2018, and led the teams behind the Apollo RT6 robotaxi and the Apollo Go mobility platform.
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Li Yanhong (born November 1968), a native of Yangquan, Shanxi, is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Baidu. He graduated from Peking University in information management in 1991, earned a master's degree in computer science at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and returned to China at the end of 1999 to found Baidu.
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San Francisco is a city in the U.S. state of California and a consolidated city-county at the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. Its population was 873,965 at the 2020 census. Several ride-hailing and autonomous driving companies are headquartered here or operate here.
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Shouqi Yueche is the ride-hailing platform of Shouqi Group, operated by Shouyue Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. It launched in Beijing in September 2015 and offers mid-to-high-end ride-hailing with licensed vehicles and certified drivers; in 2017 it entered a strategic partnership with Baidu to commercialise Apollo autonomous driving and connected car services on its platform.
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Jiangling Motors Co., Ltd. (JMC) is an automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nanchang, Jiangxi. Focused on commercial vehicles such as light trucks, light buses and pickups, its A and B shares trade in Shenzhen (000550/200550) and Ford Motor Company holds 32% of the company; it has launched Level 4 autonomous driving products and builds vehicles for Baidu's Apollo Go overseas operations.
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Lyft, Inc. is an American transportation network company founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It connects riders and drivers through a mobile app; its shares began trading on Nasdaq on 29 March 2019 (LYFT), and from 2025 it has worked with Baidu's Apollo Go to deploy robotaxi service in Europe.
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Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American transportation network company founded in March 2009 by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its businesses cover ride-hailing, food delivery (Uber Eats) and freight; it listed on the New York Stock Exchange on 10 May 2019 (UBER) and now runs autonomous mobility through partners on its platform.
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Baidu Apollo is the open autonomous driving platform Baidu released in April 2017 and the brand used by Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group (IDG). It covers autonomous driving R&D, an open platform ecosystem and the Apollo Go mobility service.
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Baidu is a Chinese internet company founded in Zhongguancun, Beijing in January 2000. Starting as a Chinese-language search engine, it expanded into artificial intelligence and intelligent driving; it listed on Nasdaq on 5 August 2005 (BIDU) and completed a secondary listing in Hong Kong in 2021.
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QCraft (轻舟智航), founded in March 2019, is an autonomous driving company whose founding team came from Waymo, Tesla, Nvidia and Facebook, with Yu Qian as CEO. It pursues a dual strategy of L2+ and L4, is headquartered in Beijing, and its assisted driving systems have been installed in more than one million vehicles.
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DeepRoute.ai (元戎启行) is an AI company founded in 2019 by CEO Dr. Maxwell Zhou, headquartered in Shenzhen. It builds its DeepRoute IO intelligent driving platform and a vision-language-action (VLA) model on end-to-end models, works with automakers such as Great Wall Motor and smart on mass production, and pursues large-scale robotaxi deployment.
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Zoox is an autonomous driving company founded in 2014 that became an independently operated subsidiary of Amazon in 2020. Headquartered in Foster City, California, it develops a purpose-built robotaxi with no steering wheel or driver's seat and launched an autonomous ride-hailing service in Las Vegas in 2025.
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OnTime Mobility (如祺出行) is a mobility technology platform launched in Guangzhou in June 2019 with GAC Group and Tencent among its founding investors. Its businesses cover ride-hailing and Robotaxi services, AI data and mapping technology services, and fleet sales and maintenance; it listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 10 July 2024 (09680.HK).
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Waymo is the autonomous driving company of Alphabet (Google's parent). It began in 2009 as Google's self-driving car project and became a separate Alphabet subsidiary in December 2016; it operates the Waymo One robotaxi service and is the largest robotaxi operator in the United States.
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Pony AI (小马智行) is a Level 4 autonomous driving company founded in 2016 by Peng Jun and Lou Tiancheng. Its businesses cover robotaxi services, autonomous truck logistics and intelligent solutions; it listed on Nasdaq in 2024 (PONY) and in Hong Kong in 2025.
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The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is a classical Chinese text by Liu Xie.
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Classic of Poetry is a anthology of classical Chinese poetry.
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《资治通鉴》是北宋司马光主编的编年体史书，全书二百九十四卷，记载周威烈王二十三年（公元前403年）至后周显德六年（959年）共一千三百余年的历史。书成于元丰七年（1084年），宋神宗以其“鉴于往事，有资于治道”赐名，是中国编年体史书的代表作。
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Records of the Three Kingdoms is a classical Chinese text by Chen Shou.
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Records of the Grand Historian is a classical Chinese text by Sima Qian.
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四大名著是中国古典长篇白话小说中《三国演义》《水浒传》《西游记》《红楼梦》四部的合称，也是现代最通行的中国古代小说选目。它由明代“四大奇书”之说演变而来，清乾隆年间《红楼梦》问世后取代《金瓶梅》与前三部并列，今名随现代出版传播而通行。
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Dream of the Red Chamber is a classical Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin.
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Water Margin is a classical Chinese novel by Shi Nai'an.
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Journey to the West is a classical Chinese novel by Wu Cheng'en.
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The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a classical Chinese novel by Luo Guanzhong.
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TOKi is a modern-cuisine restaurant in Tokyo supervised by the Nara restaurant akordu, where chef Kawashima interprets Nara ingredients through modern Spanish cooking; one MICHELIN star (newly awarded in 2023).
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Zuara Sushi sits in Madrid's Tetuán district, where chef-owner David Arauz runs a 12-seat Japanese counter serving two omakase menus; it earned a MICHELIN star and a Repsol Sun in 2023.
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El Club Allard is set in the Art Nouveau mansion Casa Gallardo at Ferraz 2, Madrid; reopened in March 2023 under Martín Berasategui, it holds one MICHELIN star for contemporary cuisine.
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Oria sits in the lobby of the Monument Hotel at Passeig de Gràcia 75, Barcelona, overseen by Martín Berasategui and run by chef Xabi Goikoetxea, serving modern Mediterranean-Basque cuisine with one MICHELIN star.
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Rêve is a restaurant in Singapore on Kreta Ayer Road presenting Japanese ingredients with classical French technique and modern plating; fish dishes are a highlight, and it first earned a MICHELIN star in 2022.
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A Sichuan restaurant in Luxetown, Shuangliu District, Chengdu, serving three-dimensional modern Sichuanese cooking by chef Xu Xiaohong; one Diamond in both the 2025 and 2026 Black Pearl Guides.
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A Sichuan restaurant on Wangjiang Road, Wuhou District, Chengdu — the first branch of the Xu's Cuisine brand, known for river and seafood and its 24-flavour set menu; one Diamond in both the 2025 and 2026 Black Pearl Guides.
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A contemporary French restaurant in Chengdu (now closed); awarded one MICHELIN star in 2024 and one Black Pearl Diamond in 2025, it closed after February 2025.
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A European restaurant on the 21st floor of the Minshan Hotel in Chengdu, serving classic European cooking with local ingredients; one Diamond in both the 2025 and 2026 Black Pearl Restaurant Guides.
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Bahrakath Mutton Soup is a mutton soup stall at Adam Food Centre in Singapore, simmering its secret-recipe broth since 1973, rich with herbal notes; it was listed in the MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2023 Bib Gourmand.