Did Tesla Just Say "Checkmate" to Waymo?

Autonomous driving is emerging as one of the most exciting opportunities in the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape. Developing self-driving vehicles stitches together semiconductors, software development, and robotics. Hence, there are several different ways to invest in the technology.

For now, the most mainstream opportunities in the autonomous vehicle market seem to be through (NASDAQ: TSLA) and , which owns self-driving car business Waymo. What most investors likely overlook is that Waymo and Tesla have approached building fleets of self-driving cars through different lenses.

While Waymo has a first-mover advantage in scaling self-driving taxi fleets, some findings from the company's recent academic research paper titled "Scaling Laws of Motion Forecasting and Planning" could suggest that Tesla may have a technological edge.

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