Waabi has secured a $750 million Series C round to accelerate autonomous trucking, and another roughly $250 million commitment from Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis exclusively on its platform.

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Waabi secured $1 billion in funding: a $750 million Series C and $250 million from Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis exclusively on Uber's platform. This marks Waabi's expansion beyond autonomous trucking into passenger vehicles. The company uses a simulator-based approach called Waabi World that trains AI with less data and infrastructure than traditional methods. CEO Raquel Urtasun claims their single technology stack can scale across multiple self-driving verticals simultaneously, unlike competitors who struggled with both markets. Waabi has delayed its fully driverless truck launch but continues commercial pilots in Texas with human drivers.

Waabi raises $1B and expands into robotaxis with Uber