Uber Technologies, Inc. and NVIDIA are collaborating on new solutions to support the development of AI-powered autonomous driving technology.
The partnership, which was unveiled at CES 2025, is expected to accelerate the journey to achieving driverless technology, according to Bank of America.
“Generative AI will power the future of mobility, requiring both rich data and very powerful compute,” said Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber.
“By working with NVIDIA, we are confident that we can help supercharge the timeline for safe and scalable autonomous driving solutions for the industry.”
Uber is set to adopt NVIDIA’s new Cosmos platform, purpose-built for developing physical AI systems like robots and autonomous vehicles.
Cosmos is expected to eliminate cost and resource barriers, helping democratise access to tools for developing physical AI.
The ride-share giant is also set to adopt NVIDIA supercomputing platform DGX, which is a high-performance, fully-managed AI platform preconfigured with the latest NVIDIA architecture and software.
Providing term-length flexibility and machine learning pipeline portability on an open platform, DGX Cloud delivers day-one productivity and maximum resource utilisation 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.”
Bank of America noted Uber was likely to “commit significant resources” in turn, including through sharing vast swathes of data.
At the time of writing, Uber Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: UBER) stock was trading at US$64.91. Its market cap stands at $136.68 billion. NVIDIA Corp's (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock price was $140.11, with a market cap of $3.43 trillion.
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