Beijing — German vehicle-maker BMW and Chinese online gaming company Tencent are teaming up to launch a computing centre in China that will help develop self-driving cars in the world’s biggest vehicle market, the companies say.

The computing centre, which will start operations by the end of the year, will provide cars with data-crunching capabilities to help them drive semi-autonomously and, eventually, autonomously...

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