At the CES trade show in Las Vegas, NVIDIA announced an expansion of its DRIVE Hyperion ecosystem, bringing together tier 1 suppliers, automotive integrators, and sensor partners including Aeva, AUMOVIO, Astemo, Arbe, Bosch, Hesai, Magna, Omnivision, Quanta, Sony, and ZF Group. This move strengthens the global network of companies working to advance level 4-ready autonomous passenger vehicles and extend full self-driving capabilities to long-haul freight transport. The expanded ecosystem builds on earlier collaborations unveiled at NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C., and aims to deliver safer, smarter, and more efficient autonomous mobility at scale. Ali Kani, vice president of automotive at NVIDIA, emphasized that DRIVE Hyperion is becoming the foundational platform for the future of mobility. “Everything that moves will eventually become autonomous, and DRIVE Hyperion is the backbone that makes that transition possible,” he said. By unifying compute, sensors, and safety into a single open platform, NVIDIA enables automakers and AV software developers to bring fully autonomous vehicles to market faster, with greater reliability and trust. The ecosystem ensures hardware compatibility across sensing systems and other components, reducing integration complexity, cutting testing time, and lowering development costs. Companies such as Astemo, AUMOVIO, Bosch, Magna, Quanta, and ZF Group are now building DRIVE Hyperion-based electronic control units. Meanwhile, AUMOVIO, Aeva, Arbe, Hesai, Omnivision, and Sony have qualified their sensor suites on the open, production-ready DRIVE Hyperion architecture. This diverse sensor portfolio includes cameras, radar, lidar, and ultrasonic technologies, enabling robust perception systems tailored for level 4 autonomy. Centralized computing and sensor fusion on the DRIVE Hyperion platform enable synchronized, low-latency control of braking, suspension, and steering—critical for advanced automated driving. By adopting the platform, partners gain seamless integration with NVIDIA’s full-stack autonomous vehicle compute solution, accelerating development and simplifying deployment. At the heart of the ecosystem is NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion, a production-ready reference architecture designed to make any vehicle level 4-ready. It features two NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor systems-on-a-chip built on the Blackwell architecture, delivering over 2,000 FP4 teraflops—or roughly 1,000 INT8 trillion operations per second—of real-time compute power. This enables transformer-based perception, vision-language-action models, and generative AI workloads capable of reasoning through complex driving scenarios in real time. With a shared compute and sensor foundation, partners can focus on innovation at the software and service layers, delivering unique features while benefiting from NVIDIA’s safety, scalability, and continuous platform improvements. Safety and trust are reinforced through NVIDIA Halos, a comprehensive safety and cybersecurity framework spanning from data centers to vehicles. Halos supports independent inspection, system validation, and certification, helping partners meet stringent global automotive and robotics standards. Combined with NVIDIA’s large-scale simulation and AI data factory workflows, Halos enables continuous testing across millions of virtual and real-world driving scenarios. At CES, NVIDIA also introduced Alpamayo, a new family of AI models and tools specifically designed to simplify level 4 autonomous vehicle development. Optimized for real-time performance on DRIVE Hyperion, these tools accelerate the creation and deployment of autonomous systems across both passenger and commercial fleets. Together, these advancements highlight NVIDIA’s end-to-end strategy—from high-performance computing and sensor integration to AI training and simulation—streamlining the path to safe, scalable autonomy.