General Motors (GM) is collaborating with the tech giant Nvidia to improve its autonomous driving and manufacturing capabilities by utilizing Nvidia’s advanced AI chips, software, and simulation technologies.
Nvidia’s founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, declared the partnership during his keynote speech at the company’s annual GTC conference in San Jose on Tuesday, highlighting its mission to innovate and advance the development of cars, robots, and factories.
As The Verge reports, GM plans to integrate multiple Nvidia products into its operations, utilizing the Omniverse 3D graphics platform for simulating virtual assembly lines to minimize downtime and enhance efficiency. GM also intends to outfit its upcoming vehicles with Nvidia’s ‘AI brain’ to support advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving capabilities. Additionally, the automaker will adopt Nvidia’s AI training software to improve the performance of assembly line robots, particularly in tasks like precision welding and material handling.
GM currently utilizes Nvidia’s GPUs to train AI software for simulation and validation. According to CEO Mary Barra, today’s development focuses on extending these applications to elevate manufacturing processes and autonomous technology.
GM intends to incorporate Nvidia’s in-car software to create next-generation vehicles with autonomous driving capabilities, including the Drive AGX system-on-a-chip (SoC). The SoC utilizes the ‘safety-certified’ DriveOS operating system, powered by the Blackwell GPU architecture, which delivers an impressive 1,000 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of high performance computing.
Ali Kani, Nvidia’s Vice President and General Manager of Automotive, stated that the company’s automotive division is still in its ‘infancy,’ with projected revenue of $5 billion this year.
Nvidia’s chips currently power less than 1% of the billions of cars on the road, he mentioned. The company has also revealed partnership with Tier 1 auto supplier Magna, known for its role in Sony’s Afeela concept, to integrate Drive AGX into its next-generation advanced driver-assistance systems.
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