SAN JOSE, CA (GTC), Mar 18, 2026 – NVIDIA expands its collaboration with Hyundai Motor Company and Kia to advance autonomous driving systems. The effort builds on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion autonomous vehicle development platform to support next-generation vehicle development.
Hyundai Motor Group (Hyundai) and NVIDIA combine software-defined vehicle (SDV) capabilities, vehicle data, and autonomous driving expertise with accelerated computing, AI infrastructure, and software to support scalable autonomous systems across Hyundai Motor Group vehicle platforms.
As part of the collaboration, Hyundai plans to deploy NVIDIA autonomous driving technologies for level 2 and above systems in select vehicles, supporting safety and driving functions.
“The future of mobility will be built on AI and software,” said Rishi Dhall, vice president of automotive at NVIDIA. “We’re combining Hyundai Motor Group’s leadership in vehicle engineering with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and AI to build safe, intelligent, NVIDIA DRIVE-based autonomous driving systems – from advanced driver assistance in select production vehicles to scalable robotaxi services with Motional.”
NVIDIA will also explore expanded collaboration with Hyundai’s autonomous driving joint venture, Motional, to support development of level 4 robotaxi capabilities and next-generation autonomous mobility services.
“The expanded partnership with NVIDIA marks an important milestone in realizing Hyundai Motor Group’s vision for safe and reliable autonomous driving technology,” said Heung-Soo Kim, executive vice president and head of global strategy office of Hyundai Motor Group. “Based on a unified, Group‑wide collaborative framework, we will strengthen our differentiated technological competitiveness – from level 2 and above autonomous driving technology to level 4 robotaxi services.”
The collaboration will help Hyundai develop a scalable autonomous driving stack based on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion, supporting systems from level 2 driver assistance to level 4 autonomy.
The collaboration combines fleet data and software-defined vehicle (SDV) development capabilities with NVIDIA’s AI computing platform to support a continuous development cycle, including data collection, model training, simulation, validation, and deployment across production vehicles.
This approach supports development of data-driven autonomous driving systems, including AI model training and updates based on real-world driving data.
Source: NVIDIA
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NVIDIA, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, designs and manufactures graphics processing units, systems on chips, networking hardware, and AI intelligence software such as CUDA. Its products serve industries including gaming, data centers, autonomous vehicles, professional visualization, robotics, health care, and energy. The company introduced the GPU in 1999 and later expanded into accelerated computing and AI infrastructure. In gaming, its GPUs support high-performance rendering, while in AI and high-performance computing, its systems provide the infrastructure for training and deploying large-scale models. NVIDIA also develops tools for robotics and autonomous driving.