Nvidia announced a partnership with Uber to launch a self-driving taxi service using its technology starting in 2027. The company stated a fleet of Level 4 autonomous vehicles will arrive in Los Angeles and San Francisco that year, with plans to expand to 28 cities globally. Nvidia also revealed its Alpamayo 1.5 AI models and noted that ride-hailing firms Lyft, Bolt, and Grab are using its systems for autonomy.
Nvidia and Uber Technologies will launch a Nvidia-powered, self-driving taxi service set to arrive in 2027. 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.
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, Estonia-based Bolt, and Singapore’s Grab are 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. “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.”
Nvidia is releasing the latest version of its Alpamayo self-driving AI models. According to the company, Alpamayo 1.5 adds an interactive, steerable reasoning model that takes driving video, ego-motion history, navigation guidance and natural language prompts as inputs.
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.
