NVIDIA has announced that its autonomous vehicle platform, NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperion, has successfully passed safety assessments conducted by TÜV SÜD and TÜV Rheinland. These organizations are recognized authorities in automotive-grade safety and cybersecurity. The achievement is seen as a significant step forward for the safety, innovation, and performance of autonomous vehicles.

The DRIVE Hyperion platform is described as the industry's first end-to-end solution for autonomous driving. It comprises the DRIVE AGX system-on-a-chip (SoC), a reference board design, the NVIDIA DriveOS operating system, a sensor suite, and an active safety and level 2+ driving stack. Automotive manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz, JLR, and Volvo Cars have adopted this modular platform to suit their needs.

The latest version of DRIVE Hyperion will be available in the first half of this year. It is designed for both passenger and commercial vehicles and features the high-performance DRIVE AGX Thor SoC based on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture.

"A billion vehicles driving trillions of miles each year move the world," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "With autonomous vehicles — one of the largest robotics markets — now here, the NVIDIA Blackwell-powered platform will shift this revolution into high gear."

NVIDIA has invested significantly in vehicle safety engineering over 15 years. The company aims to ensure that advanced automotive systems with AI-based functionalities meet stringent industry standards for functional safety and cybersecurity.

Recently acquired certifications include ISO 21434 Cybersecurity Process certification from TÜV SÜD for automotive SoC, platform, and software engineering processes. Additionally, TÜV Rheinland performed an independent UNECE safety assessment related to complex electronic systems.

NVIDIA is also accredited by ANAB to conduct inspections within its ecosystem partners through its new NVIDIA DRIVE AI Systems Inspection Lab. This lab supports building compliant autonomous driving software aligned with evolving industry standards.

NVIDIA's comprehensive third-party assessments make it unique among platform companies in receiving extensive evaluations across its technologies—spanning SoC, OS architecture—and accreditation as an AI systems inspection lab.

The core computer for DRIVE Hyperion is NVIDIA DRIVE Thor which succeeds NVIDIA DRIVE Orin. Its compatibility allows developers to use existing software while integrating future updates seamlessly.

DRIVE Thor's architecture optimizes demanding processing workloads including generative AI models enhancing generalization reducing latency boosting safety using accelerated computing running AV stacks parallelly paving way towards AV 2.0 delivering humanlike capabilities navigating complex scenarios.

Alongside DRIVE AGX other foundational computers include DGX systems training advanced models building robust cloud-based stacks Omniverse platforms running OVX simulations validations enhanced Cosmos foundation model accelerating development deployment mass-scale end-to-end projects further explored during Huang’s CES keynote address.