Toyota announced. CES 2025 Its next-generation vehicles will have autonomous driving capabilities powered by Nvidia's Drive AGX; Orin the supercomputer and a safety-focused system; DriveOS.
TechCrunch reached out to Toyota to learn more about the automaker's plans to deploy autonomous vehicles.
DriveOS is a safe, An operating system for Nvidia's autonomous vehicle platform that promises real-time AI processing and a combination of advanced driving and cockpit features.
Nvidia's Drive AGX is just one of three computers that make up Nvidia's end-to-end self-driving suite of in-vehicle sensors that process real-time sensor data. The other two are the Nvidia DGX for training AI models and software stacks, and the Nvidia Omniverse platform for testing AV software and generating aggregated data in synthesis.
Toyota has been a customer of Nvidia's other two cloud-based computing systems for several years. Toyota Research Institute in 2019; Started using Nvidia's technology. to develop its own autonomous vehicle technology; To practice and validate. Two years ago, the companies shared plans to put Nvidia supercomputers in future Toyota cars to power self-driving systems.
“Toyota is a great example of our cloud-to-car strategy,” Ali Kani, vice president of automotive at Nvidia, said at a press conference on Monday. “We've already partnered with Toyota on the cloud and are excited to now expand that partnership and work with them on the car.”
It's not just Toyota. Also at CES 2025, Aurora Innovation and automaker Continental announced the deployment of self-driving trucks at scale. Nvidia Drive Thor system-on-a-chip.
With Nvidia's broad range of platforms from training to computing, Nvidia expects its automotive vertical to grow to about $5 billion by fiscal 2026.