Nvidia has tied up with auto companies such as BYD, Hyundai Motors, Nissan Motor, Geely and Isuzu Motors to expand its foray into the expanding self-driving autoservice space.
The chipmaker's NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform will provide architecture with regards to level-4 autonomous driving, a mix of both hardware and software, the platform will give the automakers AI computers, processing chips, sensors, cameras and a tailored operating system to develop vehicles capable of taking care of all the elements of driving without the need for a human to interfere.
Nvidia announced these partnerships at its GPU Technology Conference on Tuesday. "The ChatGPT of self-driving cars has arrived," chief executive officer Jensen Huang said.
Fully autonomous self-driving automobiles are still a developing technology and are not currently available for consumers to purchase. Most vehicles on the market currently have level-2 autonomous driving, where there is some artificial assistance provided by the vehicle but consistent human oversight is still required.
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Firms such as Waymo (from Google's parent company Alphabet) have already begun operating autonomous vehicles operating at level-4 for their robotaxi services available in select regions and markets such as the US.
Companies like Tesla are also developing their own version of the self-driving car, while Amazon's Zoox is also undertaking similar activities with regards to the robotaxi space.
BYD currently utilises Nvidia's chips in its manually driven cars and with the new partnership will use the firm's DRIVE Hyperion platform to make next-generation Level 4 vehicles. Geely, utilises Nvidia's Thor chips (for AI compute) in it Zeekr vehicles. Geely also provides Zeekr vehicles to Waymo for its robotaxi service. Waymo is also using Nvidia products for its automobile and cloud computing segments.
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