Uber and Nvidia have announced that they are collaborating on new solutions to advance the development of AI-powered autonomous technology. Uber hosts millions of trips every day, representing a rich source of data that will be paired with the Nvidia Cosmos platform and Nvidia DGX Cloud to help AV partners build stronger AI models.
“Generative AI will power the future of mobility, requiring both rich data and very powerful compute,” said Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. “By working with Nvidia, we are confident that we can help supercharge the timeline for safe and scalable autonomous driving solutions for the industry.”
Nvidia Cosmos is a new platform of advanced generative world foundation models, tokenizers and accelerated data processing and model customization pipelines, purpose built for developing physical AI systems like robots and autonomous vehicles. Cosmos eliminates cost and resource barriers, helping democratize access to tools for developing physical AI.
The Nvidia DGX Cloud is a high-performance, fully managed AI platform preconfigured with the latest Nvidia architecture and software. DGX Cloud delivers day-one productivity and maximum resource utilization for AI model development across multi-cloud environments.
“Uber is one of the first mobility leaders to embrace these platforms to accelerate the development and deployment of physical AI systems such as AVs,” said Norm Marks, vice president of automotive at Nvidia. “We’re excited to collaborate with Uber to help empower the AV ecosystem with Cosmos and DGX Cloud.”
More specifics on the partnership will be shared later this year.