The joint venture, Carizon, is headquartered in Beijing and plans to recruit more than 300 experts by the end of 2023.

On November 24, local media outlet Jiemian reported that Horizon Robotics CTO Huang Chang led a team to join the joint venture.

Following last year's announcement of the two companies' plans to form the joint venture, reports surfaced that former Huawei self-driving business veteran Su Jing would join the joint venture.

Instead of joining the new company, Jiemian said in the report that Su has joined Horizon Robotics to lead high-level smart driving projects, including the Journey 6 project.

Horizon Robotics previewed the Journey 6 chip at the Guangzhou auto show in late November, with a computing power of 560 Tops, higher than the 128 Tops in the Journey 5.

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BYD ramps up smart driving R&D efforts, forms chip design team, report says