Pony AI Inc. (NASDAQ: PONY) announced a new generation autonomous driving domain controller developed in collaboration with NVIDIA Corp. The system is built on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform and powered by NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor with NVIDIA NVLink technology.

The compute platform is designed for Pony AI's L4 autonomous driving platform and customer applications across autonomous mobility. The system supports multi-sensor fusion, full-scenario perception and high-complexity scenario understanding while incorporating safety redundancy and system robustness features.

The platform offers flexible single-chip and multi-chip configurations with NVIDIA NVLink enabling communication between two DRIVE Thor system-on-chips, achieving a combined maximum computing performance of 4,000 FP4 TFLOPS. The system is expected to support multiple compute tiers and cooling solutions for deployment across various autonomous applications.

"Our collaboration with NVIDIA has supported several critical milestones in Pony AI's autonomous driving journey," said Dr. James Peng, Founder and CEO of Pony AI. "The next-generation domain controller built on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion will be a key enabler for the continued evolution of our L4 autonomous driving products and help accelerate large-scale commercialization."

The collaboration between Pony AI and NVIDIA began in 2017. In 2025, Pony AI began mass production of an L4 Robotaxi domain controller equipped with four NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin SoCs, which powers the company's seventh-generation Robotaxis.

Pony AI reported that shipments of its "Fangzai" domain controller increased by more than 500% year over year in 2025. The company's domain controllers serve customers across Germany, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, and Switzerland for applications including low-speed delivery, robosweeping, logistics, mining and autonomous shuttles.

The company aims to expand its robotaxi fleet to more than 3,000 vehicles and operate in more than 20 cities globally by the end of 2026.