GM announced at Nvidia’s GTC conference today that it will use Nvidia’s Drive AGX chips in its next-generation passenger vehicles, with a focus on autonomous driving.
“In the future, we expect to launch personal autonomous vehicles, or PAVs, with the ability to take you wherever you want to go without a human driver,” says GM.
GM is building a new software platform to power these vehicles, and its development is “well underway.” It will power “everything from smaller vehicles like the Chevrolet Equinox to full-scale trucks like the GMC Sierra EV,” promising more safety features, personalization, and Level 3 self-driving.
GM already offers Super Cruise, a Level 2 self-driving software that requires drivers to keep their eyes on the road. With a Level 3 system, “you should be able to take your eyes off the road under appropriate circumstances,” GM says. This will require “a sophisticated electrical architecture with high-performance computing.” The Nvidia Drive AGX chips deliver up to 1,000 trillion operations per second of high-performance compute.
The company isn’t promising any timelines, only noting that this will come “eventually.” Other automakers are also developing Level 3 systems, such as Honda and Mercedes. They are not currently street legal in most states.
The partnership between GM and Nvidia also extends to factory operations, with custom AI models that aim to optimize manufacturing processes. That includes creating “digital twins of assembly lines” with the NVIDIA Omniverse platform, where GM can conduct virtual testing and train robots for tasks like precision welding. Nvidia chips will also power those robots.
That could mean fewer factory jobs, or different kinds of jobs. GM CEO Mary Barra says it will help the company “build smarter vehicles while empowering our workforce to focus on craftsmanship.”
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Also today, Nvidia debuted a new autonomous driving platform called Halos. It’s billed as a “comprehensive” system, combining Nvidia’s automotive hardware and software, which can help car companies accelerate autonomous vehicle development.
It’s all part of Nvidia’s broader push into its automotive business, which is still in its “infancy,” Ali Kani, Nvidia’s vice president and general manager of automotive, tells The Verge. The company expects to bring in $5 billion in automotive revenue this year, a small fraction of Nvidia’s $130 billion in total revenue reported in 2024. But it’s client list is growing and Kani expects it to be a “trillion-dollar” business. Earlier this month, Volvo announced that its 2025 ES90 will run on the Nvidia Drive AGX Orin chip.
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