Toyota revealed at CES 2025 that its forthcoming generation of vehicles will be equipped with automated driving capabilities, powered by NVIDIA’s Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and the safety-centric DriveOS operating system. DriveOS serves as the operating system for NVIDIA’s autonomous vehicle platform, promising secure, real-time AI processing and the integration of cutting-edge driving and cockpit features.
TechCrunch has contacted Toyota to gather more specifics regarding the automaker’s strategy for introducing vehicles with automated driving capabilities. The NVIDIA Drive AGX in-vehicle supercomputer, which processes real-time sensor data, is just one part of NVIDIA’s end-to-end self-driving suite. This suite includes the NVIDIA DGX, used for training AI models and software stacks, and the NVIDIA Omniverse platform, which is used to test AV software and generate synthetic data through simulation. Toyota has been utilizing NVIDIA’s cloud-based computing systems for a number of years.
In 2019, the Toyota Research Institute initiated the use of NVIDIA’s technology to develop, train, and validate its autonomous vehicle technology. Two years prior, the companies had already announced plans to include NVIDIA supercomputers in future Toyota vehicles to operate their autonomous driving systems. “Toyota is actually a great example of our cloud-to-car strategy,” commented Ali Kani, Vice President of Automotive at NVIDIA, during a press briefing on Monday. “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.”
Toyota isn’t alone in this endeavor. At CES 2025, autonomous vehicle technology startup Aurora Innovation and automotive supplier Continental unveiled a long-term partnership to deploy driverless trucks on a large scale, leveraging the NVIDIA Drive Thor system-on-a-chip. With NVIDIA offering a comprehensive range of platforms spanning from training to simulation and compute, the company anticipates that its automotive vertical business will achieve a growth of approximately $5 billion in fiscal year 2026.
