Abstract In five years, MPAI – Moving Picture, Audio, and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence, the international, unaffiliated, not-for-profit association developing standards for AI-based data coding – has been carrying out its mission, making its results widely known and its status recognised. However, not all are clear why MPAI was established, which are its distinctive features, and why it stands out among the organisations developing standards. This is the first of a series of articles that will revisit the driving…

1. Introduction The Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) specified by Technical Specification: Connected Autonomous Vehicle (MPAI-CAV) - Technologies (CAV-TEC) V2.0 is a system that instructs a vehicle with at least three wheels to reach a Destination from a current Pose at the request of a human or a process. It does so by exploiting information captured and processed by the vehicle and communicated by other CAVs while respecting the local traffic law, Figure 1 represents an example of the type of…

MPAI has recently published two main new standards with a request for Community Comments. In MPAI lingo this means that the standards are mature, but MPAI asks the Community to review the drafts before publication. The two standards are Connected Autonomous Vehicle – Technologies (CAV-TEC) V1.0 and MPAI Metaverse Model – Technologies (MMM-TEC) V2.0. They are not “new” MPAI standards as they have already been published in earlier version, but the new versions represent significant improvements. You may ask “Why…