{"id":994725,"date":"2026-02-25T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994725"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:39:03","slug":"ai-self-driving-startup-wayve-worth-8-6-billion-after-fresh-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/ai-self-driving-startup-wayve-worth-8-6-billion-after-fresh-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"AI self-driving startup Wayve worth $8.6 billion after fresh funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wayve, a British startup specialised in artificial intelligence for self-driving vehicles, revealed Wednesday a valuation of $8.6 billion thanks to new investment from big companies including Uber, Microsoft and Nvidia. <\/p>\n<p>Wayve secured an additional $1.5 billion following investment from also Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Jeep-maker Stellantis among other firms. <\/p>\n<p>Uber and Wayve plan this year to launch commercial trials of robotaxis in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayve, a British startup specialised in artificial intelligence for self-driving vehicles, revealed Wednesday a valuation of $8.6 billion thanks to new investment from big companies including Uber, Microsoft and Nvidia. Wayve secured an additional $1.5 billion following investment from also Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Jeep-maker Stellantis among other firms. Uber and Wayve plan this year to launch commercial trials of robotaxis in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}