On August 24, DeepRoute.ai announced its partnership with Microsoft to utilize its cloud and edge computing platform, Microsoft Azure. The partnership aims to push forward DeepRoute.ai’s global deployment and accelerate the mass production of Level 4 autonomous vehicles while further boosting the safety of DeepRoute.ai’s self-driving systems outside of China.

“Microsoft is an invaluable partner to be working with on our endeavors to make L4 driving safer and available to people globally,” said Maxwell Zhou, CEO of DeepRoute.ai. “We are eager to leverage Azure for our international business and align ourselves with worldwide leading tech innovators, such as Microsoft.”

DeepRoute.ai is collaborating in-depth with prominent automakers to achieve series production of highly automated vehicles and recently demonstrated its driverless capability in the CBD centers of Shenzhen, China. DeepRoute.ai will merge its innovative software and hardware engineering with Microsoft cloud computing capabilities and security excellence to make autonomous driving safer to consumers and partners.

“DeepRoute.ai has ambitious plans that we are excited to help execute through our collaboration,” said Jason Yuan, GM of Enterprise Commercial Group, Microsoft China. “By using Azure to tap into the potential cloud computing holds for autonomous driving, together we can bring innovative self-driving technology to overseas consumers.”