Apollo - which has grown considerably to 400,000 lines of code, or more than double the 165,000 lines of code the company announced in January 2018 - is now being tested, contributed to, or deployed by Intel, Nvidia, NXP, and over 130 global partners. (That's an uptick from 116 partners in July 2018.) According to Baidu, the number of developers who've sourced Apollo's code from the project's GitHub repository stands at 12,000, a 20?% increase from mid-2018.
Among the growing body of collaborators is California-based Udelv, which in January said it would deploy up to 100 autonomous delivery vehicles developed on Apollo 3.5 to US cities, including the San Francisco Bay Area, in 2019. Other Apollo adoptees include Volvo and Ford, both of which have committed to testing Apollo-powered self-driving vehicles on Chinese roads in 2019.
Baidu is also working with Chinese automobile manufacturers Chery, BYD Auto, and Great Wall, in addition to Hyundai Kia, Ford, and VM Motori, to roll out Apollo Enterprise solutions to cars. FAW Group, which develops the Hongqi line of luxury cars, is another close partner - last year it announced plans to launch a "limited number" of Apollo vehicles across China in the following year, and Baidu says more than 60 of the world's leading automotive manufacturers use DuerOS for Apollo - a set of AI-based IoV solutions with voice assistant, augmented reality, and motion detection capabilities - in more than 300 car models.