In a major announcement at CES 2025, Toyota revealed that its next-generation vehicles will be equipped with automated driving capabilities powered by Nvidia's Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS. This marks a significant step forward for Toyota in its development of self-driving cars.
DriveOS is the operating system for Nvidia's autonomous vehicle platform that promises safe, real-time AI processing and integration of advanced driving and cockpit features. Nvidia's Drive AGX in-vehicle supercomputer, which processes real-time sensor data, is just one of the three computers that make up Nvidia's end-to-end self-driving toolkit. The other two are Nvidia DGX for training AI models and software stacks, and the Nvidia Omniverse platform to test AV software and generate synthetic data in simulation.
Toyota has a long history of collaboration with Nvidia. In 2019, the Toyota Research Institute began using Nvidia's technology to develop, train, and validate its autonomous vehicle technology. Two years prior, the companies shared plans to put Nvidia supercomputers on future Toyota vehicles to power autonomous driving systems.
"Toyota is actually a great example of our cloud-to-car strategy," said Ali Kani, vice president of automotive at Nvidia, during a press briefing at CES 2025. "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 is not the only automaker that is partnering with Nvidia on self-driving car technology. At CES 2025, autonomous vehicle technology startup Aurora Innovation and automotive supplier Continental also announced a long-term partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale powered by the Nvidia Drive Thor system-on-a-chip.
With Nvidia's range of platforms spanning from training to simulation to compute, Nvidia expects its automotive vertical business to grow to about $5 billion in fiscal year 2026.
Conclusion:
The integration of Nvidia's supercomputers and operating system into Toyota's next-generation cars is a major development in the field of self-driving cars. This partnership has the potential to accelerate the development and deployment of safe and reliable autonomous vehicles.
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