Ridehailing company Uber Technologies and software company NVIDIA have announced they are collaborating on new solutions to support the development of AI-powered autonomous driving technology.

“Generative AI will power the future of mobility, requiring both rich data and very powerful compute,” said Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber. “By working with NVIDIA, we are confident that we can help supercharge the timeline for safe and scalable autonomous driving solutions for the industry.”

Millions of trips occur every day on Uber, representing a vast source of data that the companies will look to pair with the NVIDIA Cosmos™ platform and NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud to help AV partners build stronger AI models even more efficiently.

NVIDIA Cosmos is a new platform of generative world foundation models, tokenisers, and accelerated data processing and model customisation pipelines, purpose-built for developing physical AI systems like robots and autonomous vehicles. The company says Cosmos eliminates cost and resource barriers, “helping democratise access to tools for developing physical AI”. NVIDIA DGX Cloud is a fully managed AI platform preconfigured with NVIDIA architecture and software. NVIDIA says that by providing term-length flexibility and machine learning pipeline portability on an open platform, DGX Cloud delivers day-one productivity and maximum resource utilisation for AI model development across multi-cloud environments.

“Uber is one of the first mobility leaders to embrace these platforms to accelerate the development and deployment of physical AI systems such as AVs,” said Norm Marks, vice president of automotive at NVIDIA. “We’re excited to collaborate with Uber to help empower the AV ecosystem with Cosmos and DGX Cloud.”

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