Didi Chuxing launches “Qunyan” smart mobility platform to open up AI capabilities

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- At the 2019 Global AI Product Application Expo kicking off on May 9, China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing officially launched a new smart mobility service platform dubbed “Qunyan (Wild Geese in Chinese) to open up its AI capabilities for a faster development of intelligent mobility. 

The “Qunyan” platform embraces the company’s AI basic platform, AI service abilities and mobility service solutions, according to the introduction given by Zhang Bo, Chief Technology Officer of Didi. The fresh platform is designed to customize mobility services for urban traffic managers, smart traffic enterprises, partners on the automobile industrial chain, business developers, technology geeks, colleges, scientific research institutes and public-service organizations. 

Based on the AI basic platform, Didi will share its machine learning platform and elastic reasoning services, proactively develop open-source software and provide academic community with anonymized data by expedite the opening-up of the GAIA Open Dataset.

Didi said its AI basic platform has so far served over 150 enterprises. Besides, the GAIA Initiative’s partner circle has already involved 660 colleges and scientific research institutes worldwide.  

Additionally, the company’s technologies and service abilities in such areas as the processing over voice, pictures and natural language, scenario sensing, mapping as well as travelling safety will be released to targeted users in the future. Those services have been applied in automobile, urban transportation, finance and Internet of Things (IoT) fields. 

(Photo source: Didi Chuxing's official website)

Three types of solutions—sharing mobility, smart traffic facilities and intelligent transportation—are set to be offered outside. Cooperating with over 20 cities, Didi works on helping agencies optimize urban traffic management and alleviate traffic congestion by promoting smart signal lamps and guidance displays.