Toyota and Nvidia: Driving the Future of Autonomous Vehicles
At the recent CES 2025, Toyota unveiled its exciting plans to revolutionize the driving experience with its next-generation vehicles equipped with automated driving capabilities. These advancements will be powered by Nvidia’s cutting-edge Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and the safety-centric operating system, DriveOS. TechCrunch is actively engaging with Toyota to uncover more details about their strategy to launch these autonomous vehicles.
Nvidia’s DriveOS serves as the backbone of its autonomous vehicle platform, offering real-time AI processing and seamless integration of advanced driving and cockpit features. Central to this innovation is Nvidia’s Drive AGX in-vehicle supercomputer, which excels at processing real-time sensor data. This is part of Nvidia’s comprehensive self-driving toolkit, which also includes:
- Nvidia DGX for training AI models and software stacks
- Nvidia Omniverse platform for testing AV software and generating synthetic data in simulation
For years, Toyota has been leveraging Nvidia’s cloud-based computing systems. In 2019, the Toyota Research Institute began utilizing Nvidia’s technology to develop, train, and validate its autonomous vehicle technology. This partnership dates back even further, with plans announced in 2017 to integrate Nvidia supercomputers into future Toyota vehicles.
“Toyota is actually a great example of our cloud-to-car strategy,” shared Ali Kani, vice president of automotive at Nvidia during a press briefing. “We had already partnered with Toyota in the cloud, and now we’re excited to extend that partnership and work with them in the car.”
{Ali Kani, Vice President of Automotive at Nvidia}
Toyota isn’t alone in this journey. At CES 2025, Aurora Innovation and automotive supplier Continental also announced a long-term partnership to deploy driverless trucks powered by the Nvidia Drive Thor system-on-a-chip.
With its expansive range of platforms spanning from training to simulation to compute, Nvidia anticipates substantial growth in its automotive vertical business, projecting it to reach approximately $5 billion by fiscal year 2026.
The collaboration between Toyota and Nvidia marks a significant step forward in making autonomous vehicles a reality, promising safer and more efficient transportation solutions for the future.
