Toyota announced this CES 2025 That its next-generation vehicles will have autonomous driving capabilities powered by Nvidia's Drive AGX Orion Supercomputer and the security-focused operating system, DriveOS.
TechCrunch reached out to Toyota to learn more about the automaker's plans to deploy vehicles with autonomous capabilities.
DriveOS is the operating system for Nvidia's autonomous vehicle platform that promises secure, real-time AI processing and the integration of advanced driving and cockpit features.
Nvidia's Drive AGX in-vehicle supercomputer, which processes real-time sensor data, is one of three computers that make up Nvidia's end-to-end self-driving toolkit. The other two are Nvidia DGX for training AI models and software stacks, and Nvidia Omniverse Platform for testing AV software and generating synthetic data in simulations.
Toyota has been a customer of Nvidia's other two cloud-based computing systems for years. In 2019, Toyota Research Institute Started using Nvidia's technology To develop, train and validate its autonomous vehicle technology. Two years ago, the companies shared plans to put Nvidia supercomputers in future Toyota vehicles to power autonomous driving systems.
“Toyota is actually a great example of our cloud-to-car strategy,” said Ali Kani, vice president of automotive at Nvidia, during a press briefing on Monday. “We've already partnered with Toyota on the cloud, and now we're excited to expand that partnership and work with them on cars.”
Toyota is not alone. Also at CES 2025, autonomous vehicle technology startup Aurora Innovations and automotive supplier Continental announced a long-term partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale. Nvidia Drive Thor System-on-a-Chip.
Nvidia's range of platforms spans from training to simulation to computation, Nvidia expects its automotive vertical business to be around $5 billion in fiscal 2026.