March 18th (UPI) – Officials from General Motors Corp. and Nvidia have agreed to a business partnership that will help GM produce current and next-generation vehicles more efficiently.
The Business Partnership announced in a joint news release on Tuesday, collaborating on next-generation vehicles, factories and robots using AI, simulation, acceleration computers, GM and NVIDEA staff, while providing NVIDIA artificial intelligence and other technologies to GM.
“AI not only optimizes modern manufacturing processes and accelerates virtual testing, but also allows the workforce to focus on craftsmanship while building smarter vehicles,” said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Bara.
“By combining technology with human ingenuity, we unlock new levels of innovation from the production of vehicles and beyond,” says Barra.
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said the tech companies will help GM “build AI systems tailored to their vision, craft and know-how.”
“The era of physical AI is here,” Huang said. “With GM, we are transforming transportation from vehicles to factories.”
GM will use Nvidia’s Omniverse, Blackwell and Driveos Technologies to train and improve manufacturing robotics platforms, build next-generation vehicles, and develop and deploy self-driving vehicles.
DriveOS technology offers “up to 1,000 trillion operations per second” using in-vehicle computers that use AVS to make road use safer.
Nvidia officials have also announced a new open physical AI dataset that says it teaches “how autonomous robots and vehicles interact with the physical world.”
“This dataset will grow over time to become the world’s largest unified open dataset for physical AI development,” an Nvidia official said in an online announcement Tuesday.
Nvidia officials say the new dataset will provide researchers and developers with a “head start” on the development of “next-generation physical AI.”
“To improve safety, there are many things we can do with this dataset, including predictive AI models that can help track self-driving vehicles with the movement of vulnerable road users like pedestrians.”
“The datasets that provide more diverse environments and longer clips than existing open source resources are extremely useful in advance of robotics and AV research,” Christensen said.
Nvidia officials announced new technologies and more during the Global NVIDIA GTC AI conference held in San Francisco on Friday.
GM officials did not say how much the car manufacturer would pay Nvidia to use the new technological tools, CNBC reported.
GM has used the NVIDIA graphics processing unit to train AI models in many areas of its manufacturing operations since at least 2022.
