Kodiak AI partners with NVIDIA to power autonomous driving technology

Kodiak AI Inc. (NASDAQ: KDK) announced it will incorporate NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion architecture into its autonomous vehicle technology platform. The Mountain View, California-based company said the partnership aims to accelerate deployment of driverless vehicles.

The NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform includes two NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor centralized computers built on Blackwell architecture, delivering up to 1,000 INT8 TOPS and 2,000 FP4 TFLOPS of AI compute power. Kodiak said this computing capacity will support generative AI, transformer, and Vision Language Models for real-time interpretation of driving conditions.

"The key to deploying Physical AI is harnessing the power of datacenter-scale AI and optimizing it to run at the edge," said Don Burnette, Founder and CEO of Kodiak. "At a time when our core AI capabilities and product footprint are rapidly expanding, NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion delivers robust performance across a wide range of platforms for meeting the challenge of scaling autonomous vehicles."

Kodiak reported having 20 trucks equipped with its Kodiak Driver system deployed as of the end of 2025. The company said these trucks operate without human drivers in customer-owned Class 8 vehicles, running 24/7 in West Texas's Permian Basin.

NVIDIA's Rishi Dhall, Vice President of Automotive, said the collaboration provides "a scalable, safety-first architecture that allows their sophisticated L4 stack to operate seamlessly across a wide range of platforms, from the highway to the most challenging off-road and industrial environments."

Kodiak serves customers in long-haul trucking, industrial trucking, and defense sectors. The company was founded in 2018 and went public through a listing on NASDAQ.

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