Plus will utilize the NVIDIA DRIVE Thor high-performance automotive-grade centralized computer with next-generation NVIDIA Blackwell architecture
SANTA CLARA, California, March 18, 2024—(BUSINESS WIRE)–Plus, a global provider of software solutions for autonomous driving, is collaborating with NVIDIA to advance the development of its AI-driven vision models. Plus’s state-of-the-art vision models will run on the NVIDIA DRIVE Thor™ automotive and safety computing platform aligned for future generations of Plus’ Level 4 solution, SuperDrive™.
Plus’ state-of-the-art proprietary autonomous driving software identifies nearby objects, plans the vehicle’s course, predicts the movement of those objects, and then safely controls and moves the vehicle. The system is made possible by the Plus’ superior performance in Bird’s Eye View (BEV) and 3D presence detection with multi-view camera input, which is achieved using a transformer. The system is trained on NVIDIA’s leading artificial intelligence solutions for data centers.
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor, a next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) for autonomous vehicles, features the new NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, designed for transformer, LLM and generative AI workloads, and processes up to 1,000 trillion floating-point operations every second (teraflops). This massive computing power will be used to help the Plus autonomous driving system understand the world around the vehicle and make safe driving decisions.
“As we continue to build on the latest advances in artificial intelligence to achieve a fully autonomous driving system, the technical performance and automotive-level assurance provided by NVIDIA DRIVE Thor is extremely important,” said Tim Daly, chief architect and co-founder of Plus. . “Hub-to-hub trucking operations require extensive and complex AI workloads on the L4 autonomous system. We are excited to work closely with NVIDIA to fully utilize the transformer engine capabilities on DRIVE Thor to further the development of Plus’s deep neural network and next-generation vision models.”
NVIDIA DRIVE Thor is designed for the highest level of functional safety, ASIL D, which is vital for safety-critical applications such as autonomous vehicles. Plus will use DRIVE Thor’s chip-level and system-level security features, and the functionally secure DRIVE OS, as part of Plus’ overall security concept and framework for the safe and secure deployment of future SuperDrive generations.
“We are on the cusp of transformative change in the transportation sector, driven by accelerated computing and artificial intelligence,” said Rishi Dhall, vice president of automotive at NVIDIA. “Plus’s SuperDrive platform, powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Thor, will seamlessly manage the extensive on-vehicle perception tasks essential to safe, robust self-driving trucks.”
About Plus
Plus is a global provider of software solutions for autonomous driving that spans next-generation driver safety systems to the highly automated PlusDriveⓇ and SuperDrive™ for the driver. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with operations in the US, Europe and Australia, Forbes named it one of America’s best employers for startup companies, and Fast Company named it one of the world’s most innovative companies. Plus’s open platform for autonomy is already powering vehicles in commercial use today. Partners including Bosch, dm-drogerie markt, DSV, IVECO, Luminar, Nikola, Scania / MAN / Navistar from the TRATON GROUP and Transurban are working with Plus to accelerate next-generation transport solutions. For more information, visit www.plus.ai.
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