Kodiak AI, a provider of physical AI with a focus on AI-powered autonomous vehicle technology, has 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.”
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.
