NVIDIA announced the opening of preorders for the NVIDIA Drive AGX Thor developer kit, a platform to accelerate the design, development, and deployment of autonomous vehicle and mobility solutions.
The developer kit is based on the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture and uses next-generation Arm Neoverse V3AE CPUs and the

Ansys, now part of Synopsys, is teaming up with NVIDIA to bring NVIDIA’s Omniverse technology directly into its simulation tools. Starting with applications for computational fluid dynamics and autonomous vehicle development, the integration will give engineers seamless access to advanced 3D visualization, collaborat

On July 29, Gatik announced Gatik Arena, its next-generation simulation platform designed to accelerate the development and validation of autonomous vehicle (AV) systems. Built in-house and fine-tuned to Gatik’s operational and technical needs, Arena produces photorealistic, structured, and controllable synthetic dat

On July 28, AEye, Inc., a pioneer in high-performance lidar technology and creator of the Apollo lidar sensor, announced that it has begun field deployments of OPTIS, a full-stack, flexible lidar solution designed to transform how customers across industries perceive and respond to their unique environments.
AEye is

On July 22, Innoviz Technologies Ltd. announced that its new InnovizSMART Long-Range lidar is now compatible with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin platform. By leveraging NVIDIA accelerated computing and edge computing functionalities, customers utilizing Innoviz's lidar solutions for smart applications are expected to experie

On July 24, AEye announced that its flagship Apollo lidar has been fully integrated by NVIDIA into their DRIVE AGX platform, a critical part of NVIDIA’s highly touted autonomous vehicle ecosystem.
NVIDIA’s designation gives AEye direct access to a global network of top-tier OEMs who are currently working with NVIDIA

On June 12, Schaeffler AG announced it has entered into a technology collaboration with NVIDIA. The partnership should help Schaeffler further digitalize its production processes and, ultimately, make them more efficient and agile. 
Using NVIDIA Omniverse, Schaeffler is expanding its production elements, which will b

On June 11, BMW announced that it is scaling up its Virtual Factory, using digital twins of over 30 production sites to speed up planning. What used to take weeks in real plants can now be tested virtually in days.
From now until 2027, over 40 new or updated models will be added to global production—first virtually,

On June 12, Easyrain announced that it has become the first Italian company to join NVIDIA’s AI Systems Inspection Lab, part of the NVIDIA Halos Autonomous Vehicle Safety Platform. The DAI platform, set to debut on a premium vehicle launch in 2026, delivers real-time, software-only detection of low-grip road conditio

On June 4, high-integrity software tooling expert AdaCore announced the introduction of the Ada and SPARK programming languages into the automotive market. Together with their partner NVIDIA, they are set to publish an off-the-shelf reference process, allowing others to follow their lead.
NVIDIA developed Drive OS an

On May 21, Foretellix upgraded its Foretify platform, helping autonomous vehicle (AV) developers cut development time by half and save hundreds of millions of dollars.
Foretellix's Foretify toolchain helps train AI-driven autonomous vehicle (AV) systems by automatically collecting real-world driving data and enhancin

On April 14, NVIDIA announced that its Blackwell chips have begun production at a factory operated in partnership with TSMC in Phoenix, Arizona, while it also continues to work on the construction of two future factories to be operated in Texas, in partnership with Foxconn in Houston and Wistron in Dallas. Mass produ

On April 9, California-based Luminary Cloud, the leading scalable engineering simulation platform, announced its SHIFT Models suite of foundation models. The initial SHIFT-SUV model is the world's first Physics AI foundation model and dataset designed for automotive SUV aerodynamic analysis. 
Developed in collaborati

Nvidia is in advanced discussions to acquire Lepton AI, a company specializing in leasing servers powered by Nvidia’s AI chips, according to sources familiar with the matter. The potential deal is valued at several hundred million dollars, the sources said.
In May 2023, Lepton AI raised USD 11 million in a seed fundi

On March 20 during the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference, Ficosa, announced it will work with the NVIDIA AI Systems Inspection Lab in the inspection and verification of cutting-edge hardware, including high-performance cameras and radars which are integrated with the NVIDIA DRIVE platform to enhance vehicle safety and

On March 19, Oxa announced its plans to use NVIDIA Cosmos to accelerate Industrial Mobility Automation (IMA), a USD 2 trillion market opportunity. Oxa is using NVIDIA’s Cosmos World Foundation Models (WFMs), including newly announced Cosmos Predict models, to enhance its own training tools, such as Oxa Sensor Expansi

On March 19, Ficosa announced that it has joined NVIDIA’s AI Systems Inspection Lab to drive the future of autonomous mobility. It will collaborate with NVIDIA DRIVE AI Systems Inspection Lab in the certification of cutting-edge hardware, including high-performance cameras and radars. 
Based on Ficosa social media up

On March 18, autonomous truck tech company Gatik announced it will develop and deploy NVIDIA DRIVE AGX in-vehicle compute architecture across its fleet of class 6 and class 7 Freight-Only (driverless) vehicles. The collaboration will accelerate the deployment of Level 4 autonomous trucks at scale across new markets f

On March 18, Torc, the self-driving subsidiary of Daimler Trucks, announced its collaboration with Flex, a world-class provider of automotive-grade compute platforms, and NVIDIA to develop a scalable physical AI compute system for autonomous trucks.
The platform leverages NVIDIA DRIVE AGX with Flex’s Jupiter compute

On March 17, MHP, a Porsche subsidiary announced that it will showcase visualization technology in collaboration with Innoactive, Munich at the NVIDIA GTC AI conference in California from March 17-21, 2025. Their XR Streaming platform quickly streams large 3D datasets to devices such as Apple Vision Pro. Built on NVI