Chinese web services company Baidu has partnered with NVIDIA, an American technology company, to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create a cloud-to-car autonomous car platform for local Chinese and global car makers.

Announced at the Baidu World Conference in Beijing, China, the partnership aims to deliver a self-driving AI solution with connection to the Baidu cloud for all car makers.

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said: “We’re going to bring together the technical capabilities and the expertise in AI and the scale of two world-class AI companies to build the self-driving car architecture from end-to-end, from top-to-bottom, from the cloud to the car.

"We’re going to bring together the technical capabilities and the expertise in AI and the scale of two world-class AI companies to build the self-driving car architecture from end-to-end."

“We can start applying these capabilities to solve the grand challenges of AI, one of which is intelligent machines.

"One of the intelligent machines we would like to build in the future is the self-driving car.”

As per the partnership agreement, Baidu’s cloud platform and mapping technology will be combined with NVIDIA’s self-driving computing platform to develop solutions for HD maps, Level 3 autonomous vehicle control and automated parking.

The collaboration will focus on developing products, which will make driving safer by reducing the traffic fatalities and making transportation accessible to the disabled, elderly and children.

Huang further added that developing a fully autonomous car is an end-to-end systems problem from the in-car supercomputer, to AI algorithms, to an always-updated 3D map in the cloud.

The solution developed by the two firms will be available to local Chinese automakers, as well as global brands.