Redefining Auto Innovation With AI and Digitalization

Candra Diningrat, Siemens, Maserati, BMW Group, Katana

Introduction

Transforming the Automotive Industry

From designing and visualizing vehicles to training autonomous vehicles and creating immersive virtual showrooms, NVIDIA AI, Omniverse™, and accelerated computing are driving innovation at every stage. Generative AI and simulation accelerate design and engineering, streamline manufacturing operations in the factory, and power AI agents driven by large language models—transforming customer service and repair.

NVIDIA DRIVE AV Software Debuts in All-New Mercedes-Benz CLA

NVIDIA DRIVE AV software debuts in the all-new Mercedes-Benz CLA, with a U.S. production launch of Level 2++ driving later this year and an expanded partnership to build passenger and cargo vans on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion.

Use Cases

From Design to Self-Driving

Design and Visualization

Reimagine what’s next—from initial concepts to seamless collaboration and final designs.

NVIDIA RTX PRO transforms automotive design with photorealistic, real-time visualization that enables designers and engineers to iterate rapidly. From exterior styling to interior ergonomics– Interactive, physically accurate renderings let teams explore design variations, validate proportions, and accelerate decision-making, bringing concepts to production faster.

Kia Motors

Engineering Simulation

Accelerate, visualize, and deploy AI in computer-aided engineering workflows.

GPU acceleration transforms automotive engineering simulation, enabling faster CFD analysis for aerodynamics optimization, structural validation, and thermal management. Engineers iterate through hundreds of complex simulations in days rather than months, reducing drag coefficient, improving safety, and accelerating time-to-market all while cutting manual effort and computational costs.

Engineering Simulation

Industrial Digital Twin

Create accurate virtual representations powered by NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise.

Optimize factory layouts, streamline manufacturing processes, and train robotic fleets in a virtual environment before deployment. NVIDIA Omniverse libraries enable automakers to reduce downtime, minimize waste, accelerate time-to-market, and achieve unprecedented operational efficiency—with predictive analytics and AI-powered automation driving measurable productivity gains.

Industrial Digital Twin

Virtual Showrooms and Car Configurators

Offer photoreal, interactive content for personal retail experiences.

Drive customer engagement and accelerate sales with photorealistic, interactive 3D car configurators. Customers customize vehicles in real-time selecting colors, materials and environments. Dealerships reduce content production costs, automate personalization at scale, and deliver immersive experiences across devices, from mobile to augmented reality and XR headsets.

Virtual Showrooms and Car Configurators

Generative AI

From manufacturing to testing AVs, learn how generative AI is transforming the industry.

Generative AI and large language models are redefining automotive experiences from factory to road. Automakers use AI to streamline design and manufacturing, accelerate autonomous vehicle development with end-to-end learning and synthetic data, create intelligent in-cabin assistants with natural voice interaction and personalized avatars, and enhance enterprise operations with AI-powered sales and support chatbots.

Intelligent Assistants

Autonomous Vehicles

Accelerating the future of autonomous vehicles, from cloud to car.

NVIDIA delivers a full-stack autonomous vehicle platform—from AI training and simulation to in-vehicle compute and safety. NVIDIA DGX™ and  Omniverse™ libraries with Cosmos™ power model development and validation, while NVIDIA DRIVE AGX, DriveOS, and DRIVE Hyperion, a Level 4–ready reference architecture, enable safe, scalable deployment—unified by NVIDIA Halos safety.

 NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperion 10  for autonomous vehicle development

Real-World Impact

Learn how automakers are adopting NVIDIA technology to shape the future of mobility.

News and Events

Explore the Latest News in the Automotive Industry

NVIDIA and Uber Power the Largest Expansion of Level 4 Robotaxi Fleets

Stellantis, Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, Waabi, and Volvo Autonomous Solutions adopt NVIDIA DRIVE AV for Level 4 deployment of autonomous vehicles.

NVIDIA Builds World’s First Industrial AI Cloud to Advance European Manufacturing

Announcing a $500 million investment to build the world’s first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers and NVIDIA DGX B200 systems.

General Motors and NVIDIA Collaborate on AI for Next-Gen Vehicle Experience and Manufacturing

Discover how the largest U.S. automaker will build next-generation vehicles, factories and robots using AI, simulation and accelerated computing.

Ensuring Safe Autonomous Driving With NVIDIA Halos

Discover how NVIDIA DRIVE, built on the Halos safety system, lets developers build safe autonomous vehicles with diverse software stacks and sensors, and redundant computers. 

NVIDIA Research Breakthroughs at CVPR 2025

See the groundbreaking research that led to NVIDIA winning the End-to-End Autonomous Driving Challenge for the second year in a row.

Mapless Driving: AI Powered Autonomy at Urban Scale

In this episode of DRIVE Labs, we’ll explore NVIDIA innovations that enhance mapless driving by removing information bottlenecks, improving task accuracy, and accelerating model training and inference times.

GTC 2025 Automotive Wrap Up

In this recap video, we highlight how NVIDIA is driving the future of autonomous vehicles.

NVIDIA Halos: Safety System for AV Development

Learn how NVIDIA Halos is a comprehensive safety system that brings together NVIDIA’s automotive hardware and software safety solutions with cutting-edge AI research.

Accelerating AV Development With NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos

Watch how NVIDIA Omniverse and  NVIDIA Cosmos enable developers to build the next generation of end-to-end autonomy.

NVIDIA Alpamayo

Designed to handle real-world scenarios, Alpamayo accelerates safe Level 4 AV development by enabling reasoning-based autonomy through a family of open VLA models, physical AI datasets, and simulation frameworks.

Partners

Automotive Enterprise Ecosystem

Resources

Breakthroughs in AI, Accelerated Computing, and Beyond

Getting Started with Deep Learning

Learn how deep learning works through hands-on exercises in computer vision and natural language processing. You’ll train deep learning models from scratch, learning tools and tricks to achieve highly accurate results. You’ll also learn to use freely available, state-of-the-art pre-trained models to save time and get your deep learning application up and running quickly.

Building Conversational AI Applications

Learn how to quickly build and deploy production-quality conversational AI applications with real-time transcription and natural language processing (NLP) capabilities.

NVIDIA Developer Program

Get access to free SDKs, training, and technical resources to successfully build applications on all NVIDIA technology platforms by joining our Developer Program.

NVIDIA Inception for Startups

Accelerate your startup by joining the NVIDIA Inception Program. It provides over 13,000 cutting-edge startups worldwide with critical go-to-market support, technical expertise, training, and introductions to funding opportunities.

NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute

Develop and master the skills you need in AI, HPC, and the metaverse through the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI). Choose from a catalog of over 80 self-paced courses and instructor-led workshops.

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