Autonomous driving firm Pony.ai cuts China staff as US research heads depart

According to individuals familiar with the matter, Pony.ai, an autonomous driving company co-located in the Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Guangzhou, is undergoing business adjustments. The firm’s Infrastructure and Data department has been downsized, including by dissolving a data team in Shanghai. Affected departments also include its mapping division, 36Kr reported on November 6. Meanwhile, Pony.ai is experiencing high-level personnel changes, such as the departure of Kelvin Chan, the head of an R&D center in California under the Infrastructure and Data department, and of Feng Yi, the mapping division leader also located in the US.

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