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Introduction
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Introduction

Introduction
Use Cases
Success Stories
News and Events
Partners
Resources
Getting Started

Introduction

Transforming the Automotive Industry

NVIDIA is bringing physical AI to the automotive industry, connecting vehicles, factories, and digital worlds through AI and simulation. With NVIDIA AI, Omniverse™, and accelerated computing, automakers are using AI physics, generative AI, and interactive digital twins to accelerate design and engineering, optimize factory operations, and validate autonomous driving systems in simulation before deployment. The result is faster development, safer vehicles, and more efficient production.

BYD, Geely, Isuzu, and Nissan Adopt NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion for Level 4 Vehicles

Leading automakers and mobility providers are building on NVIDIA’s end-to-end platform as NVIDIA advances Level 4 hardware.

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NVIDIA and Global Industrial Software Giants Bring Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing Into the AI Era

Cadence, Dassault Systèmes, PTC, Siemens, and Synopsys are bringing NVIDIA CUDA-X™, Omniverse™, and GPU-accelerated industrial software and tools to their customers.

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Use Cases

From Design to Autonomous Driving

Design and Visualization

Reimagine what’s next—from initial concepts to seamless collaboration and final designs.

NVIDIA RTX PRO transforms automotive design with photorealistic, real-time visualization that enables designers and engineers to iterate rapidly. From exterior styling to interior ergonomics– Interactive, physically accurate renderings let teams explore design variations, validate proportions, and accelerate decision-making, bringing concepts to production faster.

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Computational Engineering

Accelerate, visualize, and deploy AI in computer-aided engineering workflows.

GPU acceleration and AI physics transforms automotive engineering simulation, enabling faster computational engineering analysis for design optimization, structural validation, thermal management, and more. Engineers iterate through hundreds of complex simulations in days rather than months, reducing drag coefficient, improving safety, and accelerating time-to-market—all while cutting manual effort and computational costs.

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Industrial Digital Twin

Create accurate virtual representations powered by NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise.

Optimize factory layouts, streamline manufacturing processes, and train robotic fleets in a virtual environment before deployment. NVIDIA Omniverse libraries enable automakers to reduce downtime, minimize waste, accelerate time-to-market, and achieve unprecedented operational efficiency—with predictive analytics and AI-powered automation driving measurable productivity gains.

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Generative AI

From manufacturing to testing AVs, learn how generative AI is transforming the industry.

Generative AI and large language models are redefining automotive experiences from factory to road. Automakers use AI to streamline design and manufacturing, accelerate autonomous vehicle development with end-to-end learning and synthetic data, create intelligent in-cabin assistants with natural voice interaction and personalized avatars, and enhance enterprise operations with AI-powered sales and support chatbots.

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Autonomous Vehicles

Accelerating the future of autonomous vehicles, from cloud to car.

NVIDIA delivers a full-stack autonomous vehicle platform, from AI training and simulation to in-vehicle compute and safety. NVIDIA DGX™ and NVIDIA Alpamayo open Vision-Language-Action models power AI training and vehicle reasoning, Omniverse libraries with Cosmos™ power model development and validation, while NVIDIA DRIVE AGX™ and the DRIVE Hyperion Level 4–ready reference architecture, enable safe, scalable deployment—unified by NVIDIA Halos safety.

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Read How AI is Unlocking Level 4 Autonomous Driving

NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion for autonomous vehicle development

Real-World Impact

Learn how automakers are adopting NVIDIA technology to shape the future of mobility.

Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz is partnering with NVIDIA to deliver AI-defined vehicles with Level 2++ driving today and a path to Level 4 autonomy.

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Volvo Cars

Volvo Cars will integrate NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor™, built on the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU architecture, for future models and tap into NVIDIA DGX for advanced AI training.

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Nuro

Nuro has developed the Nuro Driver AI platform, built on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX® and DriveOS™.

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BMW Group

BMW

The BMW Group is optimizing production processes by using AI, its own treasure trove of data, and NVIDIA DGX systems. This lets them implement a complete deep learning operations pipeline for various industrial AI applications.

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JLR

Jaguar Land Rover

Starting in 2026, all-new Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles will be built on the NVIDIA DRIVE software-defined platform—from the cloud with NVIDIA data center solutions to the car with NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™.

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AI for Next-Gen Vehicle Experience and Manufacturing

General Motors

Discover how the largest U.S. automaker will build next-generation vehicles, factories, and robots using AI, simulation, and accelerated computing.

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NVIDIA is the backbone of the AI era, and it is now fully harnessing that innovation to deliver L4 autonomy at enormous scale, supporting an incredible ecosystem of autonomous vehicle leaders.

— Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber

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Hyundai Motor Group is exploring innovative approaches with AI technologies in various fields such as robotics, autonomous driving, and smart factory… This partnership is set to accelerate our progress, positioning the Group as a frontrunner in driving AI-empowered mobility innovation.

— Heung-Soo Kim, Executive Vice President and Head of the Global Strategy of Hyundai Motor Group

With NVIDIA DRIVE Thor in our future cars, our in-house developed software becomes more scalable across our product lineup, and it helps us to continue to improve the safety in our cars, deliver best-in-class customer experiences—and increase our margins.

— Jim Rowan, CEO of Volvo Cars

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NVIDIA is the market leader in accelerated computing, and they’ll strengthen our ecosystem of partners and our ability to deliver safe and reliable driverless trucks to our customers at scale.

— Chris Urmson, Cofounder and CEO of Aurora

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Our collaboration with NVIDIA allows us to develop the future of factory logistics today.

— Jürgen Maidl, Senior Vice President of Logistics, The BMW Group

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News and Events

Explore the Latest News in the Automotive Industry

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Press Releases
Videos

January 29, 2026

Mercedes-Benz Unveils New S-Class Built on NVIDIA DRIVE AV, Which Enables an L4-Ready Architecture

Mercedes-Benz is marking 140 years of automotive innovation with a new S-Class built for the AI era, bringing together automotive safety and NVIDIA’s advanced autonomous driving platform to enable a level 4-ready architecture designed for trust. The new S-Class with MB.OS, which will be equipped with the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion architecture and full-stack NVIDIA DRIVE […]

January 22, 2026

NVIDIA DRIVE AV Raises the Bar for Vehicle Safety as Mercedes-Benz CLA Earns Top Euro NCAP Award

AI-powered driver assistance technologies are becoming standard equipment, fundamentally changing how vehicle safety is assessed and validated. The recent recognition of the Mercedes-Benz CLA as Euro NCAP’s Best Performer of 2025 underscores this shift, as the vehicle combines traditional passive safety features with NVIDIA DRIVE AV software to achieve the highest overall safety score of […]

January 07, 2026

Steel, Sensors and Silicon: How Caterpillar Is Bringing Edge AI to the Jobsite

At CES, Caterpillar reveals how it’s integrating NVIDIA technologies, from NVIDIA Jetson Thor to speech models, to transform the world’s heavy industries.

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Transparent Vehicle outline with NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion hardware inside

BYD, Geely, Isuzu, and Nissan Adopt NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion for Level 4 Vehicles

Leading automakers and mobility providers are building on NVIDIA’s end-to-end platform as NVIDIA advances Level 4 hardware.

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Autonomous Vehicle with halo and multiple icons around it representing NVIDIA Alpamayo

NVIDIA Announces the Alpamayo Family of Open-Source AI Models

Mobility leaders such as JLR, Lucid, and Uber, along with the AV research community that includes Berkeley DeepDrive, can fast-track safe, reasoning‑based Level 4 deployment roadmaps.

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NVIDIA and Uber Power Largest Expansion of L4 Robotaxi Fleets

NVIDIA and Uber Power the Largest Expansion of Level 4 Robotaxi Fleets

Stellantis, Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, Waabi, and Volvo Autonomous Solutions have adopted NVIDIA DRIVE AV for Level 4 deployment of autonomous vehicles.

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How Robotaxis Are Gaining Ground to Make Streets Safer

Robotaxis are fully autonomous, on‑demand vehicles that use advanced sensors and AI to navigate streets and move passengers without a human driver. We asked industry leaders to talk about recent advancements in building safe robotaxis for real-world driving.

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The Future of AI-Defined Vehicles

Industry leaders and NVIDIA’s ecosystem partners share their perspectives on the technologies steering the future—robotaxis, autonomous trucking, multimodal mobility, and more.

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Video highlighting Alpamayo Reasoning Model for autonomous vehicles

How Autonomous Vehicles Learn to Reason With NVIDIA Alpamayo

See how open NVIDIA Alpamayo models, simulation frameworks, and physical AI datasets accelerate reasoning-based development for autonomous vehicles and self-driving cars.

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Demo showcasing NVIDIA Halos, the safety system for AV development

NVIDIA Halos: Safety System for AV Development

Learn how NVIDIA Halos is a comprehensive safety system that brings together NVIDIA’s automotive hardware and software safety solutions with cutting-edge AI research.

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Demo showing how NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos accelerate AV development

Accelerating AV Development With NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos

See how NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Cosmos help developers build the next generation of end-to-end autonomy.

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Automotive Enterprise Ecosystem

Resources

Breakthroughs in AI, Accelerated Computing, and Beyond

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Getting Started With Deep Learning

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Building Conversational AI Applications

Learn how to quickly build and deploy production-quality conversational AI applications with real-time transcription and natural language processing (NLP) capabilities.

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