Inside The Ride: Scaling Zoox | Episode One
In this episode, host Marc Wimmershoff (VP of Autonomy Software) joins Jesse Levinson (Co-Founder and CTO) for a candid ...
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Search every verified Jesse Levinson interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a June 2026 episode of Zoox's "Inside The Ride" series, co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson discussed the company's latest software release, which he said more than quadrupled the size of its geofenced operating area. He stated that the expanded zone now covers more than half of all ride-hailing trips that start and end in San Francisco. Levinson also noted that Zoox added major pickup and drop-off locations in Las Vegas, including hotels like Aria and Bellagio, the convention center, and the Sphere, with the airport to follow in the coming weeks. He said the company's robo-taxis began driving in Austin and Miami for the first time. Levinson described technological improvements in the new release, including better handling of dense intersections, lane changes, and unpredicted turns. He highlighted advances in machine learning and foundation models, noting that Zoox's vehicles now get stuck only once every "many tens of thousands of miles," a significant improvement from earlier operations. Levinson said the company has 100 robo-taxis currently driving and plans to scale to thousands by the following year, with a factory capable of producing three vehicles per hour. Reflecting on the company's timeline, Levinson remarked that when Zoox was founded in 2014, he would have assumed a decade-long effort to achieve its current state "was just not going to happen," but that the journey has made the outcome more rewarding.
In this episode, host Marc Wimmershoff (VP of Autonomy Software) joins Jesse Levinson (Co-Founder and CTO) for a candid ...
On June 25, 2025, Society for Science hosted a Signature Symposium featuring Society alumni Jesse Levinson of Zoox in ...
Today on Equity, we're taking you on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt for Kirsten Korosec's conversation with Zoox co-founder and ...
Before generative AI took center stage, the burgeoning autonomous vehicle technology industry was where many machine learning and AI experts played. Zoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson , who has been in the thick of it for a decade, is now preparing the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company for its next big adventure. Watch as Levinson discusses the current and future landscape of AI on wheels. #TechCrunchDisrupt2024 #Technology #Startups Subscribe for more on YouTube: https://tcrn.ch/youtube Follow TechCrunch on Instagram: http://tcrn.ch/instagram TikTok: https://tcrn.ch/tiktok X:…
CEO, Aicha Evans, and Co-Founder and CTO, Jesse Levinson, hosted a LinkedIn Live last week to reflect on the past decade of ...
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S3 Ep 15 ZOOX co-founder/CTO Jesse Levinson: Reinventing Personal Transportation from the Ground Up What's in this episode: 00:00:00 Jesse Levinson 00:01:08 sponsors: Index Ventures and Weights and Biases 00:02:04 Zoox mission 00:02:59 starting with city driving instead of the highway 00:08:06 where can the public see Zoox cars 00:09:18 what does the Zoox car look like 00:11:39 designing a car without a driver's seat and safety 00:16:43 why design your own car 00:24:38 braking distance 00:25:33 manufacturing plans 00:30:15 AI for self-driving 00:37:49 how to keep improving the safety 00:40:4…
Co-Founder and CTO, Jesse Levinson and Senior Manager of Technical Recruiting, Joseph Wu, recently hosted a LinkedIn Live event to discuss hiring at Zoox. In this session, they go over the interview process, what we're looking for in candidates, Zoox culture, and our path to commercialization. Autonomous driving has been referred to as the “moonshot” of this generation. Zoox is taking a unique, full-stack approach to building this technology and realizing its immense potential for societal impact. It's a complicated challenge that wouldn't be possible without the hard work of thousands of ta…
re:MARS Innovation Spotlight Speaker, Jesse Levinson, CTO of Amazon subsidiary, Zoox considers the development of fully autonomous vehicles for Mobility-as-a-Service. Learn more about Amazon re:MARS at https://bit.ly/3PsrFXr. Subscribe: More AWS videos http://bit.ly/2O3zS75 More AWS events videos http://bit.ly/316g9t4 ABOUT AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts events, both online and in-person, bringing the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn from AWS experts. AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fu…
Jesse Levinson, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Zoox; Dr. Jewel Li, Chief Operating Officer, AutoX; James Peng, ...
Zoox Co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson shares his visions about how autonomous driving is evolving at GTC 2021, NVIDIA's top event about graphics processors. What emerges from the chat, is the complexity that comes with the need to collect data, manage software and run simulations in order to develop a safe autonomous vehicle. For the car makers that were hoping for "an autonomous car kit to install and be done with it", the wait will be longer than expected. Jesse Levinson answered questions posed by a manager from NVIDIA. The video has been edited to highlight the software and hardware r…
Zoox is on the verge of transforming the entire transportation industry by creating self-driving robots that will become the ride-shares of the future. Read more about Zoox: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featur... #BloombergHelloWorld -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg?sub_... Bloomberg is the First Word in business news, delivering breaking news & analysis, up-to-the-minute market data, features, profiles and more: http://www.bloomberg.com Connect with us on... Twitter: / business Facebook: / bloombergbusiness Instagram:…
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