Cao Xudong
Cao Xudong is the founder and CEO of Momenta, a Chinese autonomous driving company he established in 2016. He graduated from Tsinghua University and previously conducted artificial intelligence research at Microsoft Research Asia and SenseTime, publishing papers in top-tier computer vision conferences including CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV. He is best known for proposing Momenta's data-driven strategy for scalable autonomous driving and leading the company's partnerships with major global and Chinese automakers.
“Cao Xudong's answer: 50% is data, 30% is compute, 20% human experience and inspiration — and he placed experience before inspiration.”
Source→“"Truly believing means when you encounter all problems, you start from this angle to solve them. When you face difficulties and can't solve them, you don't retreat to other methods — instead you ask, how do I innovatively change my architecture and system so the data-driven approach can work."”
Source→“"Sun Jian's help to me was really enormous. His working style was extremely grounded, extremely focused on experiments, and especially on experimental phenomena that were very inconsistent with your expectations — those might be where the most significant discoveries lie."”
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