General Motors turns to NVIDIA to help bring AI to the physical world in an extended collaboration designed to reach all aspects of the activity of the automaker, including factories, robots and autonomous cars.
The founder and CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, who announced Tuesday the partnership on Tuesday during his speech at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose, said that the moment of autonomous vehicles had arrived.
“We can’t wait to build with GM AI in the three areas,” he said on stage. “AI for manufacturing, so that they can revolutionize the way they make; AI for the company, so that they can revolutionize the way they work to design cars and simulate cars, then also AI for the car. ”
The agreement means that Nvidia will provide an IA – mainly GPU infrastructure – for GM and will help the automaker build its own AI, according to Huang.
Nvidia has a relationship of several decades with the automotive industry and autonomous vehicles, providing GPUs to companies like Tesla, Wayve and Waymo for use in data centers or their vehicles. Nvidia has also developed an autonomous vehicle platform for car manufacturers which includes an operating system called Driveos to provide real-time AI treatment and the integration of advanced driving and cockpit features. Toyota announced earlier this year that plans to equip new automated driving capacity vehicles powered by the Agx Orin Supercalculator of NVIDIA and the Driveos -focused operating system.
“We are working with the automotive industry, but the automotive industry would like us to work with them,” said Huang during the speech. “We build the three computers: the training computer, the simulation computer and the robotic computer (the autonomous car computer) – the whole software battery on it, models and algorithms as we do with all the other industries that I have demonstrated.”
GM plans to work with NVIDIA to build personalized AI systems using several technology giant products. GM did not disclose the financial value of the agreement.
GM will use Nvidia omaverse with Cosmos to train AI manufacturing models to help it build new generation factories and robotics. Using Omovers, GM will be able to build a digital twin of its factories – and even mounting channels – to test new production processes practically without disturbing the production of existing vehicles. The effort will include training robotics platforms that GM already uses for operations such as material handling and transport, and precision welding.
The car manufacturer will also use NVIDIA DRIVE AGX for its equipment integrated into vehicles for future driver assistance systems and improved cabin safety driver experiences. The automaker has recently ceased to finance its Robotaxis Commercial Development activity in a pivot that has moved resources to its driver’s advanced driver system known as Super Cruise. GM is absorbing its autonomous car subsidiary and combining it with its own efforts to develop driver assistance characteristics – and possibly fully autonomous personal vehicles.
GM’s relationship with Nvidia is not new. The Detroit -based car manufacturer used NVIDIA GPUs to form AI models for simulation and validation. The enlarged agreement now includes the use of NVIDIA AI products to focus on improving the design and operations of automotive factories.
