Uber and China's Baidu will partner to deploy thousands of Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles on the Uber platform across several international markets outside the U.S. and mainland China, the companies said on Tuesday.

Baidus shares surged after announcing a strategic partnership with Uber to roll out autonomous robotaxis worldwide. On Baidu Inc. (HK:9888) rose as much as 4% to HK$92.10 in Hong Kong before settling