CES 2025, Las Vegas – NVIDIA announced that Toyota, Aurora, and Continental have joined the list of global mobility leaders developing and building their consumer and commercial vehicle fleets on NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI.
“The autonomous vehicle revolution has arrived, and automotive will be one of the largest AI and robotics industries,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “NVIDIA is bringing two decades of automotive computing, safety expertise and its CUDA AV platform to transform the multitrillion dollar auto industry.”
NVIDIA Drive and New Partners
Toyota will build its next-generation vehicles on the automotive-grade DRIVE AGX Orin SoC, running the safety-certified DriveOS. These vehicles will offer functionally safe, advanced driving assistance capabilities.
Aurora, Continental, and NVIDIA announced a long-term strategic partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale powered by DRIVE, the company’s accelerated compute running DriveOS will be integrated into the Aurora Driver. This is an SAE level 4 autonomous-driving system that Continental plans to mass-manufacture in 2027.
Other companies adopting DRIVE accelerated computing for the next-generation advanced driver-assistance systems and autonomous vehicle roadmaps include – BYD, Li Auto, Mercedes-Benz, NIO, Rivian, Volvo Cars, Waabi, Wayve, Xiaomi, and many more.
NVIDIA offers three core computing systems and the AI software essential for end-to-end autonomous vehicle development. One is the DRIVE in-vehicle computer for processing real-time sensor data. This is joined by the DGX systems for training AI models and software stacks and the Omniverse platform running on OVX systems for testing and validating self-driving systems in simulations.
NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion
In addition, the company announced that the DRIVE AGX Hyperion has passed industry-safety assessments by TÜV SÜD and TÜV Rheinland – two of the industry’s foremost authorities for automotive-grade safety and cybersecurity.
DRIVE Hyperion is the industry’s first and only end-to-end autonomous driving platform. The latest iteration of DRIVE Hyperion will feature the high-performance DRIVE AGX Thor SoC built on the Blackwell architecture.
“A billion vehicles driving trillions of miles each year move the world. With autonomous vehicles — one of the largest robotics markets — now here, the NVIDIA Blackwell-powered platform will shift this revolution into high gear,” said Jensen Huang.
NVIDIA is now accredited by the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) to provide safety and cybersecurity inspections for the DRIVE ecosystem partners. The DRIVE AI Systems Inspection Lab will help the DRIVE ecosystem build autonomous driving software that meets the industry’s evolving safety and AI standards.
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