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Waabi's Simulation-First Bet — When Driving Miles Stop Being the Scoreboard
Founded by ex-Uber ATG chief scientist Raquel Urtasun in 2021, Waabi trains its Waabi Driver inside Waabi World—a closed-loop neural simulator—before Texas trucking runs and a $750M Series C into robotaxis. Here is the simulation-first thesis, verified funding, and how it stacks against Waymo, Aurora, and a post-Cruise landscape.
