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Wayve
Company blog · wayve.ai/blogai
Wayve is the company blog at wayve.ai, writing about ai. Since 2018, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times, most often “The first example of reinforcement learning on-board an autonomous car”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (25) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Wayve's company blog, mainly its "thinking" posts on LINGO language-driving models and its technology page, as evidence of end-to-end and vision-language self-driving work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 25 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-01-27
- The first example of reinforcement learning on-board an autonomous car3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-03
- Lingo-1: Exploring Natural Language for Autonomous Driving2 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2023-09-14
- Lingo-2: Driving with Natural Language2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-04-17
- Solving the long-tail of driving automation with end-to-end AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-20
What Hacker News says?
Or your name is Wayve https://wayve.ai/
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on “Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown”Submitted Photorealistic reconstruction in static and dynamic scenes as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIts level 2. And they've been having streams of data for _years_ with autopilot. and yet they let this shit out. Look at how incorrectly they've placed the objects, traffic and other things. It has _no_ situational awareness, because it can't see 20% of the objects. Considering that https://wayve.ai/ can drive around london unaided, tesla is utterly rubbish
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on “Tesla's “full self driving” beta is potentially dangerous”Submitted Wayve Raises $1.05B to Develop Embodied AI Products for Automated Driving as a story · 2 points
HN discussionVision Language Models are absolutely being trialed for self-driving https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-2-driving-with-language/
Comment linking /thinking/lingo-2-driving-with-language/
on “The Generative AI Con”Submitted Lingo-2: Driving with Natural Language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWell yeah https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-2-driving-with-language/
Comment linking /thinking/lingo-2-driving-with-language/
on “The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership”Submitted Wayve Announces $200M in Funding to Accelerate the Development of AV2.0 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>There is a vast gulf between "GPT-5 can drive a car" and "a neural network using the transformer architecture can be trained to drive a car". The only difference between the two is training data the former lacks that the latter does so not a 'vast gulf'. >And I see no proof whatsoever that we can, today, train a single model that can both write a play and drive a car. You are not making a lot of sense here. You can…
Comment linking /thinking/lingo-2-driving-with-language/
on “The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership”Submitted Wayve – Learned Urban Driving as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wonder what is the general feeling towards startups that take a different approach such https://comma.ai/ and https://wayve.ai/ ?. These startups take the approach of building "Android version" of self-driving cars, a technology that can be used as add-on in the existing cars.
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on “Subsidiary of Toyota to acquire Lyft’s self-driving car division”Submitted Simulation Training, Real Driving as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes! This was a solo project done in my free time :) to learn about WMs and get more practice training GANs. The special aspect of NNs (in the context of simulating worlds) is that NNs can mimic entire worlds from videos alone, without access to the source code (in the case of pokemon) or even without the source code having existed (as is the case for the real-world forest trail mimicked in this post). They mimic th…
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on “World Emulation via Neural Network”Submitted Dreaming about driving using Reinforcement Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>Take autonomous driving for example - a driver of a car sees a person attempting to cross a street in front of them. A human can decide to slam the brake or the gas depending on the context - is the person crossing the car some old granny on a walker or a soccer player? Or a human sees a ball being kicked into the air on the sidewalk behind some cars, with no humans visible. The human can infer "whoops, there might…
Comment linking /thinking/lingo-2-driving-with-language/
on “OpenAI fails to deliver opt-out system for photographers”Submitted Learning to drive in a day as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWho's working on self-driving cars in Europe then? I only know about a couple of groups of Cambridge nerds: https://five.ai/faq https://wayve.ai/
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on “Aurora is finally ready to show the world what it’s been up to”Submitted Wayve AI – Learning to drive in a day as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are already a few research demos. For driving - https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-natural-language-autonomous-...
Comment linking /thinking/lingo-natural-language-autonomous-driving/
on “ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com”Submitted The first example of reinforcement learning on-board an autonomous car as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe don't know if that's actually true. Tesla claims "end-to-end AI" in their next iteration, not an "end-to-end model". Wayve [1] is the only one who has an end-to-end model that takes video input and outputs a trajectory, but they are still doing one-off demos. [1] https://wayve.ai
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on “California suspends GM Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment”Submitted Stellantis and Wayve Partner as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNon-LLM self-driving (some companies are starting to look into them for driving now - https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-natural-language-autonomous-... ) has multiple vectors (it's not just one system, it's loads of crafted and trained sensors and algorithms working together to plot a path). Improvement is subsequently harder to pin down or ascertain. Say you massively improve how well your sensor disambiguates object…
Comment linking /thinking/lingo-natural-language-autonomous-driving/
on “LLMs and the End of Programming – CS50 Tech Talk with Dr. Matt Welsh [video]”Submitted Wayve secures $1.5B to deploy its global autonomy platform as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWayve (1) are driving similar test vehicles in London Apparently they're not affiliated with Waymo, rather they are a competitor (2) 1) https://wayve.ai/ 2) https://techfundingnews.com/wayve-2-billion-microsoft-softba...
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on “Waymo's Robotaxis Are Coming to London”Submitted Nissan and Wayve Sign Agreements to Deliver Next-Generation Driver Assistance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThey go into specifics if you look for them - https://wayve.ai/technology/ It's a bit marketing-material but lots of stuff to look through there.
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on “UK startup gets $1B funding for self-driving car tech”Submitted Solving the long-tail of driving automation with end-to-end AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDon't think much miracle needs to happen if at all. Maybe the paper doesn't get into that but certainly their are viable methods being worked on https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-natural-language-autonomous-...
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on “Drive Like a Human: Rethinking Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models”Submitted Solving the long tail with end to end AI as a story · 1 points
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