Ghost Autonomy, a Mountain View, CA-based company which specializes in scalable autonomy software for consumer cars, raised $5M in funding.
The investment, which brought the total amount to $220M to date, was made by OpenAI Startup Fund.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate ongoing research and development of LLM-based complex scene understanding required for urban autonomy.
Led by John Hayes, founder and CEO, Ghost Autonomy makes autonomous driving software for consumer cars. It is a software partner to automakers, accelerating new applications of artificial intelligence to help realize the software-defined vehicle. The company is working on the use of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) in autonomy. This new software architecture applies the human-like reasoning of large models to the driving task, enabling autonomous vehicles to understand and navigate the long tail of complex driving scenarios.
Ghost’s platform allows automakers to bring artificial intelligence and advanced autonomous driving software into the next generation of vehicles, now expanding capabilities and use cases with MLLMs. The company is actively testing these capabilities via its development fleet today, and is partnering with automakers to jointly validate and integrate new large models into the autonomy stack.
Ghost has additional offices in Detroit, Dallas and Sydney.
FinSMEs
09/11/2023