Toyota revealed at CES 2025 that its forthcoming generation of vehicles will feature automated driving technology, leveraging Nvidia’s Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and the safety-focused DriveOS. DriveOS serves as the operating system for Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle platform, designed to ensure secure, real-time AI processing and integration of advanced driving and cockpit functionalities.
Nvidia’s Drive AGX, which processes real-time sensor data within the vehicle, is a key component in Nvidia’s comprehensive self-driving toolkit. This toolkit consists of three primary computing systems: Drive AGX in-vehicle, Nvidia DGX for AI model training and software development, and the Nvidia Omniverse platform for AV software testing and the creation of synthetic data via simulation. Toyota has already been a customer of Nvidia’s cloud-based computing platforms for several years. In 2019, the Toyota Research Institute began utilizing Nvidia’s technologies for the development, training and validation of its autonomous vehicle technology. Two years earlier, Toyota and Nvidia announced collaborative plans to integrate Nvidia’s supercomputing capabilities into future Toyota vehicles to drive their autonomous systems.
“Toyota is a prime example of our cloud-to-car approach,” Ali Kani, Nvidia’s Vice President of Automotive, stated during a press briefing at the show. “We had established a cloud-based partnership with Toyota and are looking forward to expanding our collaborative efforts to encompass in-vehicle systems.”
It’s not just Toyota that’s showing interest in Nvidia. Also at CES 2025, Aurora Innovation, a company specializing in autonomous vehicle technology, and automotive supplier Continental declared a long-term partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale, using Nvidia’s Drive Thor system-on-a-chip. With Nvidia’s diverse range of platforms, spanning from training and simulation to computation, Nvidia projects its automotive sector business to reach approximately $5 billion in fiscal year 2026.
