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Kyutai Labs and the ELLIS Institute launch Kesai Labs, a Franco-German non-profit open-science organization developing the first fully open self-driving technology stack based in Tübingen and Paris

The lab commits to releasing open weights, data, and code.

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Andrei Bursuc @CVPR#1697
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Andrei Bursuc @CVPR@abursuc#1697inTech

Hello world from @kesai_labs! Here's a new non-profit open-science AI lab based in Tübingen & Paris pushing the frontiers of Physical AI and self-driving in particular. They have a top-notch founding team, an ambitious agenda & incredible supporters (the team behind @kyutai_labs)

Nicolas Granatino🌻@ngranati

Today @kyutai_labs and @ELLISInst_Tue launch @kesai_labs

A Franco-German non-profit building the first fully open, efficient self-driving stack - then extending to robotics, manufacturing, healthcare.

Open weights. Open data. Open code

🔗 https://kesai.eu

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Users are praising the Kesai Labs launch for an open self-driving stack because it arrives right after a substack highlighted the urgent need for open-source autonomous-vehicle technology.

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Nicolas Granatino🌻@ngranati

@bgurley wrote a fantastic substack last week on why autonomous vehicles need an open source stack.

Could not be more timely for @kesai_labs launch

Thank you!

Read it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/p3institute/p/from-open-source-software-to-open?r=44hcrd&utm_medium=ios

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