Kodiak AI Scales Autonomous Driving with NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion

Kodiak will utilize the NVIDIA AV architecture in next-generation driverless solutions

Kodiak AI, a leading provider of Physical AI, with a focus on AI-powered autonomous vehicle technology, announced NVIDIA technology will help power Kodiak’s next-generation autonomous-driving solution.

Kodiak intends to accelerate the deployment and scaling of driverless vehicles with the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion architecture, a production-ready reference platform that is underpinned by two NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor centralized computers. Built on the Blackwell architecture, DRIVE AGX Thor delivers up to 1,000 INT8 TOPS / 2,000 FP4 TFLOPS of AI compute. This massive compute headroom is optimized for the latest generative AI, transformer, and Vision Language Models (VLM), enabling the Kodiak Driver to interpret nuanced and unpredictable real-world conditions in real time to enable safe and verifiable driving behavior.

“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.”

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Unmatched real-world experience

Kodiak enters this collaboration as an established autonomous trucking leader. With the Kodiak Driver deployed in 20 trucks as of the end of 2025, Kodiak is the only company providing driverless service on customer-owned Class 8 trucks with no humans in the cab today. Kodiak-powered trucks operate 24/7 in West Texas’s harsh and demanding Permian Basin, navigating bumps, potholes, cattle guards, oncoming vehicles, and dust storms without a human on board.

A Modular Approach to Innovation

The Kodiak Driver, Kodiak’s virtual driver, combines advanced AI-powered software with modular and vehicle-agnostic hardware and is built to harness best-in-class technologies from across the AI ecosystem. By incorporating the NVIDIA DRIVE platform into its stack, Kodiak continues its strategy of technical agility, ensuring its customers – from global logistics providers to the U.S. Military – benefit from the most advanced accelerated computing available.

“NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion is the backbone of the AI-defined vehicle era,” said Rishi Dhall, Vice President of Automotive at NVIDIA. “By collaborating with Kodiak, we are providing 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.”

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