Alphabet’s Waymo has bought Latent Logic, which has developed imitation learning-powered simulators to train autonomous vehicles.
Latent Logic, a UK-based highway behaviour simulation software spinout of University of Oxford, has been bought by internet and technology group Alphabet’s self-driving car business Waymo for an undisclosed sum, TechCrunch reported on Thursday.
Founded in 2017, Latent Logic creates computer simulators for training autonomous vehicles.
Powered by a variant of machine learning called imitation learning, the simulators are designed to learn the imperfect tendencies of motorists and pedestrians in order to more accurately model genuine highway behaviours.
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