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Pony.ai (小马智行), founded in 2016 in Fremont, CA, is a leading Chinese autonomous driving company. Pony.ai currently operates fully autonomous driverless vehicles in Beijing and Guangzhou, and holds licenses to operate in those cities as well as Shanghai and Shenzhen.

Parallel Systems, founded in January 2020 by three former SpaceX engineers, develops autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles (Panther) that each carry a single container and run independently or in uncoupled platoons on existing freight rail, targeting sub-500-mile lanes now served by trucks. It holds FRA approval to operate on 160 miles of track near the Port of Savannah.

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, PlusAI builds Level-4 autonomous "virtual driver" software for factory-built heavy trucks, co-founded by Stanford-affiliated serial entrepreneurs David Liu, Hao Zheng, Tim Daly and Shawn Kerrigan. Its SuperDrive system is designed for OEM factory integration, supported by the HyperFoundry development platform, with partners including Scania, MAN, Navistar/International, Hyundai, Iveco, Volkswagen's Traton, Bosch and DSV. The company runs autonomous freight routes in Texas and has a European team in Munich. It split its China and U.S. businesses in October 2023, with the China entity continuing under the 智加科技 brand.

Founded in 2021 in Toronto, Canada, Waabi develops fully autonomous trucks powered by generative AI technology.

DeepWay, founded in 2018 in Hefei, China, is a new energy heavy-duty truck company.

Humble, founded in 2025 in San Francisco, USA, develops autonomous electric freight trucks.