Uber Technologies and Nvidia (NVDA) will launch a Nvidia-powered, self-driving taxi set to arrive in 2027, the latter revealed Monday. A fleet of Level 4 autonomous vehicles will come to Los Angeles and San Francisco in 2027 as part of both companies’ broader self-driving efforts.
At Nvidia’s GTC event on Monday, the AI giant said the service will eventually move beyond California to include 28 cities across four continents. In addition to Uber, Nvidia also said Lyft (LYFT), Estonia-based Bolt, and Singapore’s Grab are also using its systems to power their own self-driving capabilities.
“The autonomous vehicle revolution is here — the first multitrillion-dollar robotics industry,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement. “Everything that moves will eventually be autonomous,” he said. “The Nvidia Hyperion platform and our Alpamayo open reasoning models give vehicles the ability to perceive their surroundings, reason through complex situations and act safely — making scalable, level 4 autonomy possible.”
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In addition to the Uber announcement, Nvidia said it is releasing the latest version of its Alpamayo self-driving AI models. Alpamayo 1.5, the company explained, adds an “interactive, steerable reasoning model to the mix, that “takes driving video, ego-motion history, navigation guidance and natural language prompts as inputs. Then, it outputs driving trajectories with reasoning traces.”
Nvidia and Uber stock both rose higher after the GTC event and self-driving taxi announcement. NVDA is trading near the top of its 52-week range and above its 200-day simple moving average.