WeRide launches WeRide Genesis

The company states: “WeRide (WRD) announced the launch of WeRide GENESIS1, its proprietary general-purpose simulation model. WeRide GENESIS bridges physical AI and generative AI, connecting the real and simulated worlds to accelerate the development, training, and validation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) at scale. Leveraging generative AI, WeRide GENESIS can rapidly generate highly realistic virtual worlds, building simulated cities within minutes and accurately reproducing rare, extreme real-world driving scenarios that are difficult to capture on actual roads. This enables AVs to undergo large-scale training and validation in simulation. Insights generated are continuously fed back into real-world operations – significantly enhancing AV performance in complex scenarios, speeding up iteration cycles, and reducing time and cost compared to traditional road testing.”