Toyota Motor Corp will invest about $500 million in Uber Technologies Inc to jointly work on developing driverless vehicles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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The investment valued Uber at about $72 billion, WSJ reported.

Earlier this year, a group of investors led by Japan`s SoftBank Group Corp invested in Uber, as Softbank became its largest shareholder.

Toyota and Uber were not immediately available for comment.

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