Detroit’s driverless comeback wasn’t homemade. GM owes its resurgence to the AI acumen and good name of San Francisco startup Cruise Automation, Vogt’s company, which it acquired last year for $581 million. (If Cruise meets certain deadlines that come with incentive payments, it’ll wind up clearing almost $1 billion.) “GM is a leader because Cruise has allowed them to attract amazing talent,” says Reilly Brennan, a partner at Trucks Venture Capital who lectures at Stanford.
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