NVIDIA DRIVE Powers Next Generation of Transportation — From Cars and Trucks to Robotaxis and Autonomous Delivery Vehicles
March 18 2024 - 5:47PM
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GTC—NVIDIA today announced that leading companies
across the transportation sector have adopted the NVIDIA DRIVE
Thor™ centralized car computer to power their next-generation
consumer and commercial fleets — from new energy vehicles and
trucks to robotaxis, robobuses and last-mile autonomous delivery
vehicles.
DRIVE Thor is an in-vehicle computing platform architected for
generative AI applications, which are becoming paramount within the
automotive industry. The system, the successor to DRIVE Orin, can
deliver feature-rich cockpit capabilities, plus safe and secure
highly automated and autonomous driving, all on a centralized
platform. This next-generation AV platform will integrate the new
NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, designed for transformer, LLM and
generative AI workloads, which was announced during NVIDIA founder
and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote at GTC.
“Accelerated compute has led to transformative breakthroughs,
including generative AI, which is redefining autonomy and the
global transportation industry at large,” said Xinzhou Wu, vice
president of automotive at NVIDIA. “DRIVE Orin continues to be the
AI car computer of choice for today’s intelligent fleets, but now
we’re seeing mobility leaders looking ahead to bring NVIDIA DRIVE
Thor into their next-generation, AI-enabled vehicle roadmaps.”
Next-Gen AI Fleets Embrace Accelerated
ComputeNVIDIA DRIVE Thor is poised to revolutionize the
automotive landscape, ushering in an era where generative AI
defines the driving experience. At GTC, several leading EV makers
are revealing their next-gen AI vehicle fleets powered by DRIVE
Thor:
- BYD, the world’s largest electric vehicle
maker, is expanding its ongoing collaboration with NVIDIA from the
car to the cloud. In addition to building its next-generation EV
fleets on DRIVE Thor, BYD plans to use NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure
for cloud-based AI development and training technologies, along
with the NVIDIA Isaac™ and NVIDIA Omniverse™ platforms to develop
tools and applications for virtual factory planning and retail
configurators.
- Hyper, a premium luxury brand owned by GAC
AION, announced it has selected DRIVE Thor for its next-generation
EVs, which will begin production in 2025 with level 4 driving
capabilities. Hyper is currently using NVIDIA DRIVE Orin to power
its flagship model Hyper GT, which features advanced level 2+
driving capabilities.
- XPENG has also announced it will use the
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor platform as the AI brain of its next-generation
EV fleets. The next-gen car computer will power the EV maker’s
proprietary XNGP AI-assisted driving system, enabling autonomous
driving and parking capabilities, driver and passenger monitoring
and other functionalities.
These EV makers join Li Auto and
ZEEKR, which have already announced they’re
building their future vehicle roadmap on DRIVE Thor.
Powering Long-Haul Trucks, Delivery Vehicles,
RobotaxisBeyond passenger vehicles, DRIVE Thor caters to
the diverse needs of other segments where high-performance compute
and AI are essential for ensuring safe, secure driving operations,
including trucking, robotaxis, goods delivery vehicles and
more.
A number of these mobility providers are leading the charge at
GTC, including:
- Nuro, which develops level 4 autonomous
driving technology for commercial and consumer vehicles, has
selected DRIVE Thor to power the Nuro Driver™, an integrated
autonomous driving system consisting of Nuro’s proprietary AI-first
software and sensors paired with NVIDIA automotive-grade compute
and networking hardware. The system will begin testing later this
year.
- Plus, a global provider of autonomous driving
software solutions, announced that future generations of its level
4 solution, SuperDrive™, will run on the automotive-grade,
safety-compliant DRIVE Thor centralized computer. Plus will
leverage the compute performance of DRIVE Thor within its
autonomous driving system to understand the world around the truck
and make safe driving decisions.
- Waabi, which is building AI for self-driving,
is leveraging DRIVE Thor to deliver the first generative AI-powered
autonomous trucking solution to market. The company plans to
integrate DRIVE Thor in its Waabi Driver to power safe and reliable
autonomous trucks at scale.
- WeRide, in cooperation with
tier 1 partner Lenovo Vehicle Computing, is
creating several level 4 autonomous driving solutions for
commercial applications built on DRIVE Thor. Integrated within
Lenovo’s first autonomous driving domain controller AD1, this
solution will be used for a wide range of urban-centered use cases,
where functional safety, redundant safety design, fusion and
scalability are a must.
The Great and Powerful DRIVE ThorSlated for
production vehicles as early as next year, DRIVE Thor will harness
the new NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, which features a generative
AI engine and other cutting-edge capabilities, and wields 1,000
teraflops of performance to help ensure safe and secure autonomous
machines.
To learn the latest on NVIDIA DRIVE, watch NVIDIA’s GTC keynote.
Register for GTC to attend sessions from NVIDIA and transportation
industry leaders through March 21.
About NVIDIASince its founding in 1993, NVIDIA
(NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The
company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC
gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of
modern AI and is fueling industrial digitalization across markets.
NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing infrastructure company with
data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry. More
information at https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
For further information, contact:Marie
LabrieAutomotive NVIDIA
Corporation+1-408-921-6987mlabrie@nvidia.com
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Omniverse; third parties’ use and adoption of our products and
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compute redefining autonomy and the global transportation industry
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