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CoreWeave signs multi-year deal to train Wayve's AI Driver

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CoreWeave signs multi-year deal to train Wayve's AI Driver

3 Key Points

  1. What happened

    CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Wayve, which will train its foundation models for autonomous vehicles on CoreWeave Cloud with Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, after scaling up from Weights & Biases.

  2. Why it matters

    Wayve's AI Driver learns from real-world data collected in more than 70 countries, a workload the company says needs reliable long training runs and observability to validate safety at scale — the need CoreWeave is positioning its cloud to fill.

WHO IT HITSAutonomous-vehicle and physical-AI engineering teams that depend on long, safety-critical training runs and simulation stand to benefit, as Wayve's move signals a template for outsourcing that infrastructure to a purpose-built AI cloud.

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The agreement extends an existing relationship rather than starting one from scratch: Wayve began on Weights & Biases, a tool it used before scaling into CoreWeave Cloud. That progression matters because the workload in question is a frontier training job with physics and safety attached, as Wayve puts it — the kind that needs reliability across long training runs and enough observability to prove one model version beats the last.

Both sides frame the deal around that demand. Wayve's Silvius Rus describes a data flywheel of gathering real-world driving experience, training, evaluating, and deploying only what outperforms what is already on the road, and says CoreWeave's purpose-built cloud helps accelerate commercial deployment. CoreWeave's Gavin Jackson casts it as bringing one of the most demanding physical AI programs onto a platform built for exactly that, as AI moves from the screen into the physical world.

CoreWeave leans on benchmark credentials in making that pitch: it cites record-breaking MLPerf results in inference and training, three consecutive Platinum rankings in SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX as the only AI cloud to do so, and the number-one ranking for inference speed and price-performance for Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 and Kimi K2.7 Code in independent benchmarking by Artificial Analysis.

FAQ
What exactly will Wayve run on CoreWeave?
Wayve will use CoreWeave Cloud and Nvidia Blackwell GPUs to train, evaluate and simulate its foundation models for the AI Driver.
Was Wayve already a CoreWeave customer?
Wayve began using Weights & Biases and has now scaled into leveraging CoreWeave Cloud, according to the announcement.
What does Wayve's AI Driver run on?
It learns to drive from real-world data collected in more than 70 countries, and Wayve describes it as moving from personally-owned cars to robotaxis.
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