<ul><li>Waymo, the driverless ride-hailing arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has launched a new AI research model for its self-driving operations.</li><li>The research model, called EMMA, uses real-world knowledge based on Waymo's Gemini language model and aims to eventually allow autonomous vehicles to operate directly from sensor data.</li><li>Waymo's approach is similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) and other end-to-end model approaches.</li><li>While some have criticized the use of large-scale end-to-end models without sufficient safeguards, Waymo is currently only using the EMMA model for research purposes.</li></ul>

Waymo launches its AI research model for self-driving operations

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