BYD, Geely, Isuzu and Nissan are developing vehicles with L4-level autonomous driving capabilities based on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform.

NVIDIA's full-stack autonomous ride-hailing taxis, developed in collaboration with Uber, will first launch in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the first half of 2027, with plans to expand to 28 markets by 2028.

Bolt, Grab, Lyft and TIER IV are using the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform to scale up the development of their global autonomous ride-hailing fleets.

NVIDIA Halos OS introduces a unified safety architecture for AI-driven vehicles, laying a mass-production-grade safety foundation for L4-level autonomous driving based on DRIVE Hyperion.

The NVIDIA Alpamayo 1.5 open model and NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec technology can help developers train, simulate and optimize their assisted driving systems on a large scale.

San Jose, California — GTC — March 16, 2026, Pacific Time — NVIDIA today announced that the adoption of its NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion™ platform continues to expand, with global automakers BYD, Geely, Isuzu, and Nissan, as well as leading mobility service providers, adopting the platform. This reflects the industry’s accelerated progress in the development of safe, scalable assisted driving vehicles.

These partners are using DRIVE Hyperion, supported by the NVIDIA Halos OS safety architecture, as their standard platform to accelerate validation cycles and simplify global deployment strategies. By leveraging a standardized reference architecture that integrates computing, sensors, networking, and security systems, automakers and mobility service providers can achieve faster fleet learning and more efficient global scaling.

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: “The revolution in autonomous vehicles is here — it is the first trillion-dollar robotics industry. In the future, everything that moves will eventually be autonomous. The NVIDIA Hyperion platform and our Alpamayo open inference model endow vehicles with the ability to perceive their surroundings, reason through complex scenarios, and make safe decisions, enabling scalable L4 autonomous driving.”

DRIVE Hyperion Enables Scalable Development of L4 Vehicle Projects and Autonomous Ride-Hailing Platforms

Leading automakers BYD, Geely, and Nissan (with Wayve software) are developing next-generation L4 autonomous driving vehicle projects based on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion, a production-ready computing and sensor architecture.

Isuzu and TIER IV are collaborating to develop L4 autonomous buses using the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor™ system-on-chip from NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion.

In addition, NVIDIA is working with Amazon on the Alexa Custom Assistant with multimodal edge AI capabilities on the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX™ accelerated computing platform, allowing automakers to deliver immersive intelligent cockpit experiences while ensuring privacy and enhancing performance.

Uber is building one of the world’s largest autonomous ride-hailing networks based on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion. Backed by a growing number of automaker platforms, NVIDIA and Uber today announced a deepened partnership, planning to deploy a fleet of autonomous vehicles equipped with full-stack NVIDIA DRIVE AV software in 28 cities across four continents by 2028.

The program will launch first in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in the first half of 2027. This autonomous fleet equipped with DRIVE Hyperion will leverage the NVIDIA Alpamayo open model and NVIDIA Halos operating system to accelerate the development and deployment of safe, scalable autonomous ride-hailing services worldwide.

Mobility service providers including Bolt, Grab, and Lyft are also advancing their autonomous mobility projects based on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion, indicating that the entire industry is moving toward building software-defined autonomous ride-hailing fleets.