Toyota and Nvidia expand AI partnership for vehicles, factories, cities

Toyota and Nvidia announced an expansion of their partnership to integrate artificial intelligence across Toyota's vehicle development, manufacturing and urban infrastructure operations. The expanded collaboration builds on an agreement announced last year under which Toyota committed to developing next-generation vehicles with advanced driver-assistance capabilities using the Nvidia DRIVE AGX in-vehicle computing platform and the safety-certified Nvidia DriveOS operating system.

Within vehicle development, future Toyota vehicles are designed to deliver Level 2++ driver-assistance functionality intended to provide more intelligent, context-aware driving while maintaining Toyota's safety standards. Beyond this, Toyota is leveraging Nvidia AI models to accelerate its software engineering processes. The automaker has developed a MISRA-compliant AI coding assistant built on Nvidia Megatron-LM and Nvidia Nemotron to help engineers generate, review and validate safety-critical automotive software more efficiently while meeting industry compliance requirements.

In manufacturing, Toyota is extending AI into factory operations through simulation technologies. Using Nvidia Omniverse libraries and the Nvidia Isaac Sim robotics simulation framework, Toyota is creating digital twins of production environments to simulate robot movements, optimize manufacturing workflows and reduce downtime before changes are deployed on factory floors. The partnership also includes urban mobility through Woven by Toyota, the company's mobility technology subsidiary. Woven has developed a multimodal vision-language model using Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs and Megatron-Core to analyze urban traffic conditions, interpret real-world environments, anticipate changing traffic situations and support decision-making across transportation and city infrastructure systems. Rishi Dhall, Nvidia's vice president of automotive, stated that "physical AI will bring intelligence to every moving machine from cars, robots and trucks to the cities and factories they operate in," and that "together, Toyota and Nvidia are building the AI infrastructure for a new era of mobility, where vehicles can become more autonomous, manufacturing more AI-defined and urban environments more intelligent, responsive and safe."

The partnership expansion reflects a strategic shift by both companies toward applying artificial intelligence across the entire automotive and urban ecosystem, rather than limiting AI to autonomous driving alone. Toyota's earlier agreement with Nvidia for next-generation vehicles equipped with advanced driver-assistance capabilities—leveraging the Nvidia DRIVE AGX platform and DriveOS operating system—provided the foundation for this broader collaboration. The extended partnership now encompasses three complementary areas: accelerating the pace of automotive software development through AI-assisted coding tools that maintain safety compliance; optimizing manufacturing through simulation and digital twins, reducing the time and risk of deploying factory changes; and analyzing urban traffic patterns to inform city infrastructure decisions through multimodal vision-language models.

This structure allows both companies to demonstrate how physical AI—intelligence embedded in moving machines and their operating environments—can improve efficiency and safety across the mobility value chain. Rishi Dhall, Nvidia's vice president of automotive, frames the partnership as building "AI infrastructure for a new era of mobility," signaling that the companies see this as a foundational integration rather than a one-off project. The involvement of Woven by Toyota, the automaker's mobility technology subsidiary, underscores Toyota's intent to extend these technologies into urban systems beyond the vehicle itself.

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