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Applied Intuition and NVIDIA Collaborate to Enhance Autonomous Driving Adoption

In a bold move aimed at accelerating the adoption of autonomous driving technology, Applied Intuition recently announced its strategic collaboration with NVIDIA. This partnership is set to rejuvenate the development and implementation of Level 2+ driver assistance systems (L2+) for automotive manufacturers worldwide. The announcement was made during the NVIDIA GTC conference, solidifying Applied Intuition's standing as a preferred software provider for OEMs developing L2+ autonomous driving systems that are optimized for NVIDIA hardware.

Applied Intuition, a leader in physical AI, offers OEMs a streamlined path toward producing L2+ systems. Their L2+ platform for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) is designed to be fully optimized for NVIDIA's DRIVE AGX Orin and the forthcoming DRIVE AGX Thor, enabling automakers to incorporate advanced functionalities across a variety of vehicle architectures.

This collaboration supports automotive manufacturers in expediting their time-to-market, mitigating integration risks, and enhancing development speed, all while utilizing software and tools that are intended to work seamlessly from the get-go. Varun Mittal, president of Applied Intuition, emphasized, "Advanced driver assistance is becoming a baseline expectation for mass-production vehicles. Our collaboration with NVIDIA raises the standards across all propulsion systems, from internal combustion engines and hybrids to fully electric vehicles, providing manufacturers with a clear and safe pathway to implement Level 2+ autonomy. This is achieved by merging NVIDIA's hardware leadership with our software designed to meet regulatory, safety, and manufacturing requirements."

On the other side, Rishi Dhall, Vice President of the Automotive Division at NVIDIA, remarked, "Applied Intuition is a key software partner for automotive manufacturers developing advanced driver assistance systems on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform. By combining Applied Intuition's L2+ production-ready software platform with NVIDIA's high-performance AI processing capabilities, we are enabling OEMs to accelerate development and seamlessly integrate scalable and safe driver assistance capabilities into vehicles across the globe."

The L2+ stack from Applied Intuition leverages a virtuous cycle of data and simulation, allowing the management of petabyte-scale datasets to train and evaluate stacks in closed-loop simulations. Their development and validation tools are now enhanced to incorporate models from NVIDIA’s Cosmos World Foundation, thereby enriching datasets of sensors with increased diversity in scenarios like weather conditions, lighting, and behavioral dynamics.

As OEMs continue to prioritize ADAS and L2+ autonomy as essential features, many face tangible constraints related to cost, energy consumption, thermal limits, and design—especially in mass-production vehicles with internal combustion engines and hybrids.

To address these challenges, Applied Intuition provides a fully scalable software solution, specifically engineered to operate within NVIDIA's frameworks. This includes:

• - A complete set of deployable L2+ functionalities that facilitate highway driving, safety, and automated parking, optimized for NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin and the upcoming DRIVE AGX Thor.
• - Cutting-edge development tools and data engines that enable ongoing end-to-end development and validation of L2+ stacks, enhanced with fleet datasets and simulation mechanisms, and bolstered by NVIDIA Cosmos world base models for data augmentation and generation workflows.
• - A Vehicle OS that ensures OEMs have superior integration of infotainment, high-performance middleware, and a safety-critical software architecture, all compatible with NVIDIA DriveOS to provide a comprehensive software foundation.

With the automotive industry accelerating towards software-defined vehicles, this collaboration provides OEMs with an optimized foundation and a practical route to market for advanced and safe driver assistance systems.

About Applied Intuition

Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, Applied Intuition, Inc. drives the future of physical AI. The Silicon Valley-based firm creates the digital infrastructure required to empower intelligence across all moving machines on the planet. Applied Intuition's solutions span sectors such as automotive, defense, road transport, construction, mining, and agriculture, concentrating on three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Major players among the world's top 20 automotive manufacturers, along with the U.S. military and its allies, trust the company's solutions to provide physical intelligence. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Fort Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. For more details, visit applied.co.