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Mercedes-Benz S-Class adopts NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion and Level-4 AV software
On January 29, NVIDIA announced that the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class with MB.OS uses NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion architecture and NVIDIA DRIVE AV Level 4 software. It is designed to support future robotaxi services with a strong focus on safety and reliability.
NVIDIA DRIVE AV provides a complete automated driving system tha
Mercedes-Benz S-Class selected to develop SAE level 4 robotaxi ecosystem
On January 29, Mercedes-Benz announced it is accelerating the development of a robotaxi ecosystem by positioning the new S-Class as the core platform for SAE Level 4 automated driving services.
The model was selected due to its fail-safe architecture, with redundancies in steering, braking, computing and power supply
Magna to offer NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion-compatible ECUs, integration services
On January 5, Magna announced an expansion of its collaboration with NVIDIA to support OEM deployments on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform. As part of this collaboration, Magna will offer OEMs a comprehensive portfolio of system integration, validation, and vehicle launch services for NVIDIA DRIVE AV stack running
Cerence, US, sees strong customer adoption of Cerence xUI platform powered by NVIDIA AI
On January 5, Cerence Inc. announced strong customer adoption of its hybrid, agentic AI platform, Cerence xUI, optimized with NVIDIA and running on Microsoft’s secure Azure cloud platform. Multiple premium global automakers have selected xUI on NVIDIA AI Enterprise to power their next-generation in-car assistants beg
CES 2026: NVIDIA Alpamayo autonomous driving capabilities to appear in 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA
On January 5 at CES 2026, NVIDIA unveiled its Alpamayo family of open AI models, simulation tools and datasets to accelerate the next era of safe autonomous vehicle development. The Alpamayo family introduces chain-of-thought, reasoning-based vision language action (VLA) models that bring humanlike thinking to AV dec
CES 2026: Arbe Robotics, Israel partners with NVIDIA to showcase AI-powered automotive radar
On January 5, Arbe Robotics Ltd. announced that it is combining its radar technology with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing to enable AI-based perception for hands-off and eyes-off driving. The company will showcase its automotive-grade radar system at CES 2026.
The automotive-grade radar offers high detection detail, g
Trump allows sale of NVIDIA H200 chips to China as it works to develop its own
On December 8 in a post on Truth Social, U.S. President Trump said he had told China’s President Xi Jinping that the US would allow Nvidia “to ship its H200 products to approved customers in China . . . under conditions that allow for continued strong National Security. President Xi responded positively!”
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NVIDIA releases open-source AI model Alpamayo-R1 for autonomous driving
On December 1, 2025, NVIDIA released various open-source physical AI models and tools as well as new digital AI models and datasets to support AI research. One of the models released by NVIDIA was Alpamayo-R1 (AR1), the world’s first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action (VLA) model for autonomous driv
NVIDIA invests USD 2 billion to expand partnership with Synopsys
On December 1, NVIDIA and Synopsys, Inc. announced an expanded, strategic partnership to revolutionize design and engineering across industries.
This expanded partnership with Synopsys, in which NVIDIA has invested USD 2 billion, will integrate the strengths of NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing with Synopsys' mar
Qt Group launches automated CUDA safety checker to support safer automotive GPU software
On November 17, Qt Group introduced a new tool that automatically checks NVIDIA CUDA-based programs following required safety rules. Released in Axivion 7.11, it helps developers in safety-critical fields such as autonomous driving, medical imaging, and robotics.
CUDA is NVIDIA’s main platform for GPU-accelerated com
Musk talks of mega AI chip fab, potential Intel partnership at Tesla shareholders meeting
On November 6, Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored an important victory as shareholders at the annual meeting approved a USD 1 trillion pay package over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics giant.
Musk said that Tesla probably will have to build "a gigantic chip fab" to make
Hyundai announces NVIDIA Blackwell AI Factory to power AI-driven mobility solutions
On October 31, Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA announced they are deepening their collaboration to accelerate innovation in autonomous vehicles (AVs), on-device semiconductor advancements, smart factories and robotics with a new AI factory, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell AI infrastructure.
In addition, in support of the
Lucid, NVIDIA collaborate for Level 4 autonomous EVs, software-driven manufacturing
On October 28, Lucid Group, Inc. announced a collaboration with NVIDIA that positions Lucid to deliver one of the world's first privately owned passenger vehicles with Level 4 autonomous driving capabilities powered by the NVIDIA DRIVE AV platform.
In addition, Lucid aims to deploy a unified AI factory to build smar
International, PlusAI, NVIDIA partner to develop factory-built autonomous trucks
International Motors, PlusAI, and NVIDIA are partnering to accelerate the development of Level 4 autonomous trucks using the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperion platform. The collaboration combines International’s nearly 200 years of vehicle manufacturing expertise, PlusAI’s SuperDrive virtual driver technology trained on over
Stellantis partners with NVIDIA, Uber, and Foxconn to develop Level 4 autonomous robotaxis
On October 28, Stellantis announced a new partnership with NVIDIA, Uber, and Foxconn to jointly develop and deploy Level 4 (fully driverless) autonomous vehicles for global robotaxi services. The move builds on Stellantis’ recent agreement with Pony.ai to test self-driving vehicles in Europe and marks another step in
Foretellix, Israel to integrate safety and validation toolchain with NVIDIA DRIVE AV platform
On October 28, Foretellix announced the integration of its Foretify Physical AI toolchain with the NVIDIA DRIVE AV platform to enable advanced methods for training, testing, validation, and safety evaluation in autonomous driving development. This milestone expands a relationship that began with NVIDIA's investment i
GM reveals centralized vehicle computing platform for EV, ICE vehicles
On October 22, General Motors announced it will launch a centralized computing platform and next-gen electrical architecture across EV and ICE-powered vehicles, starting with the Cadillac Escalade IQ in 2028.
The powertrain agnostic architecture dramatically reduces the number of vehicle modules, simplifying design,



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