Uber, Volkswagen to deploy Nvidia AI technology for self-driving cars

Nvidia has increased its presence in the self-driving market considerably since the launch of its self-driving engineering. The company which already boasted of some of the biggest players in the autonomous driving sector including Tesla and Baidu as its customers, has just at present added two other major players to its roster. Today, the company announced its partnership with Uber and Volkswagen at CES.

Nvidia also announced the launch of its AI chip for autonomous cars, which the company first told people nearly in 2016. The chip which is chosen Xavier has been adult past Nvidia with AI features which are specific to self-driving cars. With the launch of the Xavier AI chip, the visitor also gave detailed data about its partnership with Uber and Volkswagen.

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According to the company'due south conference at CES 2018, Uber has been using Nvidia's GPU calculating engineering since its first test fleet of Volvo SC90 SUVs which were deployed in 2016 in Pittsburgh and Phoenix. In fact, the company claimed that only in the concluding 100 days, Nvidia has helped Uber in achieving 1 million miles of autonomous driving.

When it comes to Volkswagen, the auto giant appear that it is partnering with Nvidia and will use Nvidia'southward Drive IX platform in some of its upcoming vehicles, including the I.D. Buzz electric bus. For those who are not familiar with Nvidia's Drive Nine platform, it'south basically a software developer toolkit which helps developers to tap into the power of its AI bit Xavier.

In the conference, both Nvidia and Volkswagen looked very confident well-nigh their partnership. Nvidia's founder and CEO Jensen Huang said,

"In only a few years, every new vehicle will be expected to have AI assistants for voice, gesture, and facial recognition as well as augmented reality. Volkswagen's work with NVIDIA DRIVE Ix technology volition make that a reality. Together, we are building a new generation of cars that are safer, more than enjoyable to ride in than anything that has come up before, and accessible to everyone."

It seems that Nvidia has jumped from being just a GPU company to become i of the most autonomous-driving focused company in the earth. According to the company's statement, it is working with more than 320 customers in the self-driving sphere and it seems that the company will play a major role in our vehicles going fully autonomous.