Name: Microsoft joins GM, Cruise self-driving partnership
Uploaded: 2021-01-21T18:55:46.000Z
Duration: 1 min 6 s
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Cruz, he self driving startup company backed by General Motors, is getting help from a tech titan as it tries to speed up the commercialization of driverless vehicles.

Crews will partner with Microsoft and use its Azure cloud computing platform for its self driving vehicles.

Microsoft's expertise could also help GM quickened digitization initiatives, including the use of artificial intelligence.

In exchange, Microsoft has agreed to take an equity stake and Cruz Microsoft will join GM, Honda and other investors in a new equity investment totaling more than $2 billion.

Combined pushing cruises private market valuation to $30 billion.

 That investment puts cruise in the fast lane when it comes to the companies that are in the race to develop self driving vehicles and its technology, along with Waymo, the self driving company that's majority owned by Alphabet, and Argo AI, the Pittsburgh based self driving start up backed by Ford and Volkswagen. 

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