Thursday, 5 March, 2026
Cruise, GM join hands with Microsoft to ramp up driverless vehicles
By Basit Ansari
<p>Self-driving car maker Cruise and majority shareholder General Motors will join hands with Microsoft to speed-up the commercialisation of driverless automobiles. Microsoft will join GM, Honda Motor and other institutional investors in a combined new equity investment of more than $2 bn in Cruise, bringing the post-money valuation of the startup to $30 bn. The cruise will use Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure for its self-driving vehicles.</p>
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