Weekly China AI News from April 24 to May 1 — Dear readers, last week was a bonanza for autonomous driving enthusiasts, from Baidu and Pony.ai securing first-ever driverless ride-hailing permits, to Guangzhou-based Ruqi Mobility raking in one billion yuan from autonomous driving companies. Meanwhile, BAAI, the “Chinese OpenAI”, just released their second-gen text-to-image generation CogView2 as a Chinese equivalent of…