Wayve and NVIDIA Announce Discussions to Evaluate Proposed $500M Investment in Wayve's Next Round

London, UK, September 18, 2025 – Wayve, the leader in Embodied AI for autonomous driving, today announced it has signed a letter of intent with NVIDIA to evaluate a $500 million strategic investment in Wayve’s next funding round. 

This investment builds on NVIDIA’s participation in Wayve’s Series C funding round and fuels the company’s continued growth. It also reflects the companies’ shared vision to bring safe, scalable, and production-ready autonomous driving technology to market. Wayve’s foundation model approach, combined with NVIDIA’s automotive-grade accelerated computing platforms, equips automakers with the advanced AI and hardware needed to deliver next-generation mobility solutions on a global scale.

Wayve and NVIDIA have collaborated since 2018, with each generation of Wayve’s robot platforms accelerated by NVIDIA technology. The upcoming Wayve Gen 3 platform will be built on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor.

NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor is accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPU architecture and runs the safety-certified NVIDIA DriveOS, leveraging the NVIDIA Halos comprehensive safety system. The Wayve Gen 3 platform will push the frontier of embodied AI, advancing the Wayve AI Driver toward eyes-off (Level 3) and driverless (Level 4) capabilities across urban and highway domains.

Alex Kendall, Co-founder and CEO of Wayve:
“Continued support from a global technology leader like NVIDIA underscores confidence in our AV2.0 approach to building embodied AI and its potential to transform the future of mobility,”

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About Wayve
Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology for automated driving. Their advanced AI software and foundation models for autonomy enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any environment, enhancing the usability and safety of autonomous driving systems. Wayve is developing mapless and hardware-agnostic Embodied AI products for automakers and fleet owners, accelerating the path from assisted to automated driving. Backed by top investors like SoftBank Group, NVIDIA, Uber, and Eclipse Ventures, Wayve’s mission is to reimagine mobility with embodied intelligence. To learn more, please visit www.wayve.ai.

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