Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts the worldwide autonomous car and robotics industries are set to see important progress within the subsequent few years.
“That is going to be the last decade of AV (autonomous automobiles), robotics, autonomous machines,” Huang instructed CNBC in an interview on the VivaTech convention in Paris on Thursday.
At VivaTech, Nvidia debuted Nvidia Drive, an autonomous car growth platform permitting automakers to construct self-driving automobiles. The corporate additionally launched Cosmos Predict-2, a brand new AI mannequin skilled on 20,000 hours of real-world driving knowledge, which permits self-driving automobiles to carry out effectively in difficult climate circumstances like fog and rain.
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Nvidia sells each {hardware} and software program merchandise for autonomous automobiles, together with the Nvidia DGX software program platform, which trains self-driving automobiles on completely different driving situations.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the VivaTech commerce present. Photograph by Chesnot/Getty Photos
Huang has predicted progress within the autonomous car marketplace for a while. In January, he stated in a keynote on the client tech convention CES that “the autonomous car revolution is right here.”
“You are going to see the tempo of AV growth growing tremendously over the subsequent a number of years,” he stated on the occasion.
Final month, Huang instructed Yahoo Finance that sooner or later “each single automotive” can have an autonomous element.
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Self-driving automobiles have gotten extra widespread within the U.S., with Google-owned Waymo offering 250,000 paid robotaxi journeys per week in cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin.
Prospects are prepared to pay extra for the robotaxi expertise. In keeping with a report shared with TechCrunch on Thursday, Waymo rides are costlier than Lyft and Uber rides, however riders pay extra anyway. The common value of a Waymo is about $11 extra per journey than a Lyft and $9.50 greater than an Uber.
Uber ceo dara khosrowshahi stated in January that autonomous automobiles would take over the roles of human Uber drivers inside the subsequent 10 to twenty years. Uber drivers made three billion journeys within the first quarter of 2025, a 14% year-over-year progress in month-to-month energetic clients.
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Nvidia talked about in its newest monetary outcomes final month that income from its automotive division was $329 million, up 11% year-over-year as a result of its self-driving expertise. Nvidia’s Chief Monetary Officer, Colette Kress, stated in a convention name with analysts that Chinese language EV maker Xiaomi constructed its SU7 sedan on Nvidia’s self-driving platform.
Nvidia is among the most precious firms on the planet on the time of writing, second solely to Microsoft, with a market cap of over $3.5 trillion.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts the worldwide autonomous car and robotics industries are set to see important progress within the subsequent few years.
“That is going to be the last decade of AV (autonomous automobiles), robotics, autonomous machines,” Huang instructed CNBC in an interview on the VivaTech convention in Paris on Thursday.
At VivaTech, Nvidia debuted Nvidia Drive, an autonomous car growth platform permitting automakers to construct self-driving automobiles. The corporate additionally launched Cosmos Predict-2, a brand new AI mannequin skilled on 20,000 hours of real-world driving knowledge, which permits self-driving automobiles to carry out effectively in difficult climate circumstances like fog and rain.
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