Uber Partners with Nvidia at CES 2025 to Accelerate Autonomous Driving Innovation
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Amelia Cross
- January 7, 2025
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Uber Partners with Nvidia to Accelerate Autonomous Driving with AI at CES 2025
Uber announced a collaboration with Nvidia at CES 2025 to leverage Nvidia’s Cosmos simulation tool and DGX Cloud platform to advance autonomous vehicle (AV) technology.
Cosmos, Nvidia’s generative world model simulation tool, uses physics-based video generation from a vast dataset of 9,000 trillion tokens derived from 20 million hours of video. This allows for the realistic simulation of industrial and driving environments. Meanwhile, DGX Cloud provides high-performance AI infrastructure for training, fine-tuning, and deploying self-driving models.
Uber has not disclosed specific plans for utilizing Nvidia’s tools but continues its strategy of partnering with AV developers, including Waymo for robotaxis, Aurora Innovation for trucking, and Serve Robotics for sidewalk delivery. Uber no longer develops its own AV technology after challenges with its former self-driving unit, Uber ATG, which was sold to Aurora Innovation in 2020 following a series of setbacks.
While Uber focuses on connecting riders with drivers—whether human or robotic—CEO Dara Khosrowshahi emphasized the need for proper infrastructure investments to achieve scalable autonomous driving. He expressed confidence that Nvidia’s technology would accelerate the deployment timeline.
“By working with Nvidia, we are confident that we can help supercharge the timeline for safe and scalable autonomous driving solutions for the industry,” Khosrowshahi said in a statement.
This partnership highlights Uber’s commitment to speeding up AV deployment while remaining an asset-light platform, relying on Nvidia’s advanced tools to streamline its efforts in autonomous driving.
