By Michael Wayland
Publication Date: 2026-03-16 20:38:00
Nvidia CEO Jensen Hwang gives the keynote address at the company’s annual GTC developers conference at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, on March 16, 2026.
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Nvidia is expanding deals for its autonomous vehicle development business to Hyundai Motor, Nissan Motor and Isuzu, as well as Chinese automakers BYD and Geely, the software and chip giant announced Monday.
The new tie-ups are for Nvidia’s Drive Hyperion platform for AVs. The system helps companies develop and deploy driver-assist and autonomous driving capabilities for Level 4 AVs, which are capable of driving without human intervention under predefined areas or circumstances.
“We’ve been working on self-driving cars for a long time. The ChatGPT moment of self-driving cars has arrived,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Monday during the company’s GTC conference. “We now know we could successfully autonomously drive cars, and today, we are announcing four new partners for Nvidia’s robotaxi-ready platform. … The number of robotaxi-ready cars in the future are going to be incredible.”
No vehicles on sale to consumers today are capable of driving themselves without human monitoring or intervention, but some companies, such as Alphabet’s Waymo, offer ride-hailing fleets with Level 4 self-driving vehicles, also known as robotaxis. Most vehicles on sale today are considered Level 2, with drivers needing to continually monitor the systems.
Drive Hyperion is part of what Nvidia calls its…