百度 Apollo Go 本月在瑞士获联邦道路局 L4 许可，6 月 1 日起在圣加仑等州约 80 km² 区域开展公开道路测试，部署全电动 Apollo RT6（3 座、30+ 传感器、可拆卸方向盘），计划 2027 年初与瑞士邮政巴士合作推出完全无人驾驶服务 AmiGo。迪拜方面，Apollo Go 已覆盖整个朱美拉地区，1 月获当地首个无人驾驶测试许可，4 月通过 Apollo Go 应用推出完全无人驾驶商业化出行（首个国际应用部署）。香港作为首个右舵市场，截至 2026 年 4 月累计安全测试超 23 万公里，持当地首个自动驾驶试点牌照。
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Apollo Go on the Go： Switzerland Says "Ja"， Hong Kong Speeds Up， and Dubai Now Covers More Ground
Welcome to the June issue of AI Pulse. This month， we're stepping away from AI in software into AI in the physical world - specifically， the roads of Eastern Switzerland， Dubai and Hong Kong - where Apollo Go， our autonomous ride-hailing service has been busy. These are good stories worth telling properly by looking at what it took to get there and what it means for where we're going next.
Throughout Apollo Go's journey going global， we've always known that trust matters most. That trust isn't declared. It's demonstrated， ride by ride， license by license， and city by city. It's what we've been building for over a decade， and it's exactly what this month's progress in Switzerland， Dubai， and Hong Kong represents.
The Driverless Car Has Arrived in the Alps
This month， AmiGo， our on-demand autonomous mobility service built with PostBus， Switzerland's national bus operator， received a Level 4 permit from Switzerland's Federal Roads Office （FEDRO） for Eastern Switzerland. We started open-road trials on June 1 across an approximately 80 km2 service area in the cantons of St. Gallen， Appenzell Ausserrhoden， and Appenzell Innerrhoden. To put that in perspective， that's larger than the urban footprint of many European city centers.
The vehicle we're deploying is Apollo RT6， which was purposefully built for autonomous driving. Each RT6 is fully electric， carries up to three passengers， and is equipped with over 30 sensors for real-time environmental perception and onboard data processing. One feature worth highlighting is the RT6's detachable steering wheel， designed to be removed when conditions allow. For now， a safety operator is on board while we work through the trial phase. As the service matures and clears each safety milestone， the steering wheel has the potential to be removed， and AmiGo will become exactly what we built it to be： fully driverless.
百度 Apollo Go 本月在瑞士获联邦道路局 L4 许可，6 月 1 日起在圣加仑等州约 80 km² 区域开展公开道路测试，部署全电动 Apollo RT6（3 座、30+ 传感器、可拆卸方向盘），计划 2027 年初与瑞士邮政巴士合作推出完全无人驾驶服务 AmiGo。迪拜方面，Apollo Go 已覆盖整个朱美拉地区，1 月获当地首个无人驾驶测试许可，4 月通过 Apollo Go 应用推出完全无人驾驶商业化出行（首个国际应用部署）。香港作为首个右舵市场，截至 2026 年 4 月累计安全测试超 23 万公里，持当地首个自动驾驶试点牌照。
http://x.com/i/article/2071924730417041410
Apollo Go on the Go： Switzerland Says "Ja"， Hong Kong Speeds Up， and Dubai Now Covers More Ground
Welcome to the June issue of AI Pulse. This month， we're stepping away from AI in software into AI in the physical world - specifically， the roads of Eastern Switzerland， Dubai and Hong Kong - where Apollo Go， our autonomous ride-hailing service has been busy. These are good stories worth telling properly by looking at what it took to get there and what it means for where we're going next.
Getting this special approval for AmiGo in Switzerland marks an important development in our journey into Europe. Its regulatory framework is among the most rigorous in Europe， and earning this permit is widely seen as a prequalification for broader European market access. We also chose Eastern Switzerland for a reason： its mountain terrain， dispersed communities， routes that are costly and difficult to run on fixed schedules. These are exactly the gaps that AmiGo is designed to fill. And by partnering with PostBus - an institution that Swiss communities have trusted for generations - we made sure AmiGo didn't arrive as an outside experiment. It arrived as part of a service people already rely on.
If all goes to plan， regular fully driverless operations will launch in early 2027， making AmiGo the largest planned automated public transport operation of its kind in Europe.
Switzerland is one piece of a larger picture. Progress has been picking up elsewhere too.
Dubai： The Future of Urban Mobility， Now Available Across Jumeirah
In Dubai， we now cover the full Jumeirah area， connecting riders across beaches， hotels， malls， offices， and some of the city's most popular destinations. It's the latest step in a fast few months for Apollo Go in Dubai. In January， we secured the city's first driverless testing permit and opened Apollo Go Park， our first operations hub outside China. By April， we had launched fully driverless commercial ride-hailing through the Apollo Go app - our first international app deployment. If you're in Dubai， you can open the Apollo Go app and hail a driverless ride right now. No driver. No wait for the future. It's already here.
Hong Kong： 230，000+ km of Safe Testing and Still Counting
Hong Kong was our first right-hand-drive market， and it's been one of our most important proving grounds. We're the city's first autonomous vehicle pilot licence holder， and as of April 2026， we've logged more than 230，000 km of safe testing - expanding from Airport Island to North Lantau， Kowloon East， and Southern Hong Kong Island. This month， Apollo Go was on full display at the 2026 International Automotive & Supply Chain Expo （Hong Kong）， where we returned for a second year running with two RT6 vehicles on the show floor. Next， we're exploring cross-border autonomous driving services and deeper partnerships with local transport operators， working toward all-weather， all-scenario driverless mobility.
None of this would have been possible without a diverse group of local partners worldwide. In Switzerland， it's PostBus. In Dubai， it's Dubai Taxi Company （DTC） and the Roads and Transport Authority （RTA）. In Abu Dhabi， it's AutoGo.
We're also extending our reach globally through partnerships with some of the world's most established ride-hailing platforms， bringing Apollo Go to riders who are already using services they trust. Through our global partnership with Uber， we're deploying Apollo Go vehicles in markets outside the US and China， with Dubai and London in the pipeline. And through a separate partnership with Lyft， we're bringing our Apollo RT6 vehicles to Europe， with launches planned in London later this year， subject to regulatory approval.
27 Cities Down， 22 Million Rides Delivered. We're Just Getting Started.
As of April 2026， we've provided more than 22 million rides to the public. In Q1 2026 alone， we completed 3.2 million fully driverless rides - a volume that's growing over 120% year-over-year. As of May， Apollo Go is present in 27 cities worldwide， with our fleets accumulating over 330 million autonomous kilometers globally， including more than 220 million fully driverless kilometers， all while maintaining a strong safety record. We're just getting started.
And we believe autonomous driving doesn't succeed by being impressive. It succeeds by being safe and useful， woven into the fabric of how people actually move through their lives. In Eastern Switzerland， that means filling gaps in a transit network that's served communities for over a century. In Dubai， it means keeping pace with one of the world's fastest-moving cities. In Hong Kong， it means building the blueprint for what robotaxi scaling looks like in a right-hand-drive market - and showing the rest of the world that the model travels.
Baidu Open-Sources Unlimited-OCR， Setting New Benchmarks for Long-Document Reading
We open-sourced Unlimited-OCR， a model built to read and transcribe long documents in a single pass， up to 40+ pages， without losing context or slowing down.
Built on DeepSeek OCR's high-compression DeepEncoder， it runs on a compact 3B MoE architecture with only 500M activated parameters. For a model of its size， the results are impressive： new end-to-end state-of-the-art on OmniDocBench v1.5 and v1.6， #1 on Hugging Face Trending， topped GitHub Daily Trending， and hit 10，000 GitHub stars in just five days.
Explore the model on GitHub and Hugging Face.
PaddleOCR Releases PP-OCRv6： Lightweight， Fast， and Built for the AI Data Era
PaddleOCR's new model series scales from 1.5M to 34.5M parameters， delivering stronger accuracy and faster inference across deployment environments， from browsers and edge devices to servers.
PP-OCRv6 brings +4.9% detection accuracy and +5.1% recognition accuracy over its predecessor， with up to 5.2x faster CPU inference via OpenVINO. A single unified model now covers 50 languages and new use cases including PCB， CAD drawings， digital tubes， and dot-matrix text.
Explore the model at paddleocr.com | GitHub | Hugging Face.
MeDo Global Hackathon： 8，000 Builders， 160+ Countries
We wrapped up our MeDo Global Hackathon event， and the response exceeded anything we expected： 8，000+ participants from over 160 countries completed 2262 submissions， reaching a combined audience of more than 10 million.
Submissions spanned from everyday utilities to fully functional business tools. The hackathon proved what we've always believed： with the right tools， anyone can build. You don't need to write a single line of code to bring a real product to life.
MeDo is open to builders everywhere at medo.dev.
DuMate Cuts Token Consumption by 75%
Our general-purpose agent， DuMate， has completed a major engine upgrade - cutting token consumption during task execution by 75% through the Harness engine and a series of engineering optimizations， without compromising agent intelligence or task performance. User credit consumption dropped by the same amount.
Since launching in March， DuMate has been growing fast， reaching 1.16 million monthly visits with a 114.72% month-on-month growth rate in April， and topping the AICPB's growth leaderboard for Claw Agent.
DuMate is now available on iOS in China's App Store， joining the existing Android version.
Have a question about Apollo Go's expansion， or something you'd love us to cover next？ Leave a comment or DM us！
Until our next roundup， keep up with our latest AI developments and innovations by following us on LinkedIn and X.
Throughout Apollo Go's journey going global， we've always known that trust matters most. That trust isn't declared. It's demonstrated， ride by ride， license by license， and city by city. It's what we've been building for over a decade， and it's exactly what this month's progress in Switzerland， Dubai， and Hong Kong represents.
The Driverless Car Has Arrived in the Alps
This month， AmiGo， our on-demand autonomous mobility service built with PostBus， Switzerland's national bus operator， received a Level 4 permit from Switzerland's Federal Roads Office （FEDRO） for Eastern Switzerland. We started open-road trials on June 1 across an approximately 80 km2 service area in the cantons of St. Gallen， Appenzell Ausserrhoden， and Appenzell Innerrhoden. To put that in perspective， that's larger than the urban footprint of many European city centers.
The vehicle we're deploying is Apollo RT6， which was purposefully built for autonomous driving. Each RT6 is fully electric， carries up to three passengers， and is equipped with over 30 sensors for real-time environmental perception and onboard data processing. One feature worth highlighting is the RT6's detachable steering wheel， designed to be removed when conditions allow. For now， a safety operator is on board while we work through the trial phase. As the service matures and clears each safety milestone， the steering wheel has the potential to be removed， and AmiGo will become exactly what we built it to be： fully driverless.
Getting this special approval for AmiGo in Switzerland marks an important development in our journey into Europe. Its regulatory framework is among the most rigorous in Europe， and earning this permit is widely seen as a prequalification for broader European market access. We also chose Eastern Switzerland for a reason： its mountain terrain， dispersed communities， routes that are costly and difficult to run on fixed schedules. These are exactly the gaps that AmiGo is designed to fill. And by partnering with PostBus - an institution that Swiss communities have trusted for generations - we made sure AmiGo didn't arrive as an outside experiment. It arrived as part of a service people already rely on.
If all goes to plan， regular fully driverless operations will launch in early 2027， making AmiGo the largest planned automated public transport operation of its kind in Europe.
Switzerland is one piece of a larger picture. Progress has been picking up elsewhere too.
Dubai： The Future of Urban Mobility， Now Available Across Jumeirah
In Dubai， we now cover the full Jumeirah area， connecting riders across beaches， hotels， malls， offices， and some of the city's most popular destinations. It's the latest step in a fast few months for Apollo Go in Dubai. In January， we secured the city's first driverless testing permit and opened Apollo Go Park， our first operations hub outside China. By April， we had launched fully driverless commercial ride-hailing through the Apollo Go app - our first international app deployment. If you're in Dubai， you can open the Apollo Go app and hail a driverless ride right now. No driver. No wait for the future. It's already here.
Hong Kong： 230，000+ km of Safe Testing and Still Counting
Hong Kong was our first right-hand-drive market， and it's been one of our most important proving grounds. We're the city's first autonomous vehicle pilot licence holder， and as of April 2026， we've logged more than 230，000 km of safe testing - expanding from Airport Island to North Lantau， Kowloon East， and Southern Hong Kong Island. This month， Apollo Go was on full display at the 2026 International Automotive & Supply Chain Expo （Hong Kong）， where we returned for a second year running with two RT6 vehicles on the show floor. Next， we're exploring cross-border autonomous driving services and deeper partnerships with local transport operators， working toward all-weather， all-scenario driverless mobility.
None of this would have been possible without a diverse group of local partners worldwide. In Switzerland， it's PostBus. In Dubai， it's Dubai Taxi Company （DTC） and the Roads and Transport Authority （RTA）. In Abu Dhabi， it's AutoGo.
We're also extending our reach globally through partnerships with some of the world's most established ride-hailing platforms， bringing Apollo Go to riders who are already using services they trust. Through our global partnership with Uber， we're deploying Apollo Go vehicles in markets outside the US and China， with Dubai and London in the pipeline. And through a separate partnership with Lyft， we're bringing our Apollo RT6 vehicles to Europe， with launches planned in London later this year， subject to regulatory approval.
27 Cities Down， 22 Million Rides Delivered. We're Just Getting Started.
As of April 2026， we've provided more than 22 million rides to the public. In Q1 2026 alone， we completed 3.2 million fully driverless rides - a volume that's growing over 120% year-over-year. As of May， Apollo Go is present in 27 cities worldwide， with our fleets accumulating over 330 million autonomous kilometers globally， including more than 220 million fully driverless kilometers， all while maintaining a strong safety record. We're just getting started.
And we believe autonomous driving doesn't succeed by being impressive. It succeeds by being safe and useful， woven into the fabric of how people actually move through their lives. In Eastern Switzerland， that means filling gaps in a transit network that's served communities for over a century. In Dubai， it means keeping pace with one of the world's fastest-moving cities. In Hong Kong， it means building the blueprint for what robotaxi scaling looks like in a right-hand-drive market - and showing the rest of the world that the model travels.
Baidu Open-Sources Unlimited-OCR， Setting New Benchmarks for Long-Document Reading
We open-sourced Unlimited-OCR， a model built to read and transcribe long documents in a single pass， up to 40+ pages， without losing context or slowing down.
Built on DeepSeek OCR's high-compression DeepEncoder， it runs on a compact 3B MoE architecture with only 500M activated parameters. For a model of its size， the results are impressive： new end-to-end state-of-the-art on OmniDocBench v1.5 and v1.6， #1 on Hugging Face Trending， topped GitHub Daily Trending， and hit 10，000 GitHub stars in just five days.
Explore the model on GitHub and Hugging Face.
PaddleOCR Releases PP-OCRv6： Lightweight， Fast， and Built for the AI Data Era
PaddleOCR's new model series scales from 1.5M to 34.5M parameters， delivering stronger accuracy and faster inference across deployment environments， from browsers and edge devices to servers.
PP-OCRv6 brings +4.9% detection accuracy and +5.1% recognition accuracy over its predecessor， with up to 5.2x faster CPU inference via OpenVINO. A single unified model now covers 50 languages and new use cases including PCB， CAD drawings， digital tubes， and dot-matrix text.
Explore the model at paddleocr.com | GitHub | Hugging Face.
MeDo Global Hackathon： 8，000 Builders， 160+ Countries
We wrapped up our MeDo Global Hackathon event， and the response exceeded anything we expected： 8，000+ participants from over 160 countries completed 2262 submissions， reaching a combined audience of more than 10 million.
Submissions spanned from everyday utilities to fully functional business tools. The hackathon proved what we've always believed： with the right tools， anyone can build. You don't need to write a single line of code to bring a real product to life.
MeDo is open to builders everywhere at medo.dev.
DuMate Cuts Token Consumption by 75%
Our general-purpose agent， DuMate， has completed a major engine upgrade - cutting token consumption during task execution by 75% through the Harness engine and a series of engineering optimizations， without compromising agent intelligence or task performance. User credit consumption dropped by the same amount.
Since launching in March， DuMate has been growing fast， reaching 1.16 million monthly visits with a 114.72% month-on-month growth rate in April， and topping the AICPB's growth leaderboard for Claw Agent.
DuMate is now available on iOS in China's App Store， joining the existing Android version.
Have a question about Apollo Go's expansion， or something you'd love us to cover next？ Leave a comment or DM us！
Until our next roundup， keep up with our latest AI developments and innovations by following us on LinkedIn and X.
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