NVIDIA Drive AGX Hyperion platform to accelerate AV development and streamline industry partner collaboration

At CES 2025, NVIDIA officially unveiled its DRIVE AGX Hyperion platform, designed to accelerate the development of safe, innovative, and high-performance autonomous vehicle technology.

As the world's first end-to-end autonomous driving platform, DRIVE Hyperion integrates the DRIVE AGX SoC with a reference board design, running NVIDIA DriveOS at its software core. It also incorporates an extensive suite of sensors and an LV2+ active safety and driving stack, enabling unparalleled environmental and contextual processing capabilities.

The latest iteration is powered by the DRIVE AGX Thor SoC, which leverages NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture. Beyond this, the entire DRIVE ecosystem benefits from NVIDIA DGX, Omniverse on OVX, and the DRIVE AGX platform, further enhanced by NVIDIA Cosmos. This comprehensive ecosystem facilitates dramatically accelerated development and large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicle solutions.

NVIDIA envisions a future of software-defined vehicles, capable of receiving updates via over-the-air (OTA) drops and adhering to strict functional safety and cybersecurity standards. To ensure this, entities like TÜV SÜD and TÜV Rheinland are already engaged, with the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) granting certifications for conducting safety and cybersecurity inspections. These efforts are supported by the new NVIDIA DRIVE AI Systems Inspection Lab.

In terms of industry collaboration, partners such as Toyota, Aurora, and Continental have joined NVIDIA’s efforts in autonomous vehicle development and production. Toyota plans to incorporate DRIVE AGX Orin and DriveOS into its next-generation vehicles, enhancing advanced and functionally safe driving assistance systems. Meanwhile, Aurora and Continental are focusing on driverless trucks at scale, relying on the consistency and manageability of NVIDIA's DRIVE ecosystem.

Other automakers and tech companies are also embracing the DRIVE AGX platform. This includes brands like YD, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), Li Auto, Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, NIO, Nuro, Rivian, Volvo Cars, Waabi, Wayve, Xiaomi, ZEEKR, Zoox, and many more.