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DiDi is China's ride-hailing giant whose footprint, per a 暗涌Waves interview with BAI's Long Yu, had by late 2024 stretched to over 260 cities across 15 countries in Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa, connecting more than 550 million users across mobility, food delivery and financial services . Mexico is the showcase of that expansion: entering in 2018, DiDi grew to cover 50+ cities there and, in Long Yu's account, overtook Uber in local market share — she holds it up as a model "Glocal" company that localizes rather than wins on price wars . Beyond ride-hailing, it has an autonomous driving arm: in 2021 in Shanghai, DiDi's self-driving unit logged a continuous five-hour driverless run without takeover, described as a milestone for the industry in China . A 葬AI piece frames its arc more broadly — from copying Uber to innovations Uber couldn't catch up with — as the template of Chinese consumer-internet companies' shift from imitation to invention .
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