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Gatik Raises 00M Series D to Scale Autonomous Middle-Mile Trucking Fleet
Autonomous middle-mile logistics startup Gatik has raised $200 million in a Series D funding round to accelerate the deployment of its driverless commercial freight fleet. The capital brings Gatik's total institutional funding to approximately $500 million since its founding in 2019. The funding round was co-led by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), with participation from Millennium Management, ARK Invest, and Intact Private Capital. Gatik did not disclose
August 25, 20261 min
Xiaomi Unveils Custom Silicon Roadmap with 6nm Xring O100 AI Accelerator and 3nm D100 Smart-Driving Processor
Xiaomi has unveiled details of its custom semiconductor roadmap, introducing two specialized AI processors alongside its next-generation mobile system-on-chip: the 6-nanometer Xring O100 near-memory AI accelerator and the 3-nanometer Xring D100 autonomous driving chip. Both processors are manufactured by TSMC and have completed hardware validation ahead of planned commercial rollouts. The announcements follow a reported investment of more than 21 billion yuan ($3.1 billion) by Xiaomi into in-ho
August 25, 20261 min
Nevada Approves Commercial Robotaxi Permits for Up to 8,000 Vehicles Across Tesla, Waymo, and Uber
The Nevada Transportation Authority (NTA) has unanimously approved commercial robotaxi operating permits for Tesla, Waymo, and Uber across Clark County, establishing the regulatory foundation for up to 8,000 autonomous passenger vehicles in the Las Vegas metropolitan area over the next 12 months. The regulatory decision marks one of the largest single-county autonomous vehicle authorizations in the United States, distributing operating rights across three primary commercial applicants: * Tesl
August 21, 20261 min
Waymo Details Custom 5nm ASIC and Heterogeneous Compute Architecture for Robotaxis
Alphabet subsidiary Waymo has disclosed the architectural specifications of the computing platform powering its sixth-generation autonomous driving system, revealing a custom 5-nanometer application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) engineered specifically for front-end sensor ingestion and edge machine learning. The disclosure, authored by VP of Engineering Satish Jeyachandran and Compute Lead Daniel Rosenband, details how the company processes raw data from onboard sensor arrays in real time
August 20, 20261 min
Waymo Brings Gemini Voice Assistant to Custom Ojai Robotaxis
Waymo has integrated Google's Gemini large language model into its purpose-built Ojai robotaxis, introducing a conversational in-cabin voice assistant while maintaining strict isolation boundaries between the passenger interface and the vehicle's autonomous driving system. The voice assistant allows passengers to control cabin settings (such as adjusting air conditioning), query trip details, ask about points of interest along the route, and request general information hands-free during autonom
August 19, 20261 min
Nvidia Opens Alpamayo 2 Super for Commercial Use
Nvidia has released the weights for Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34-billion-parameter vision-language-action model for autonomous-vehicle development, under the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW-1.1 license. The change gives automakers and autonomous-driving developers a commercial path to fine-tune, redistribute, and build derivative models from Nvidia's largest Alpamayo release, according to the company's announcement and model card. A cloud teacher model, not a robotaxi driver Alpamayo 2 Super combi
August 4, 20261 min

Autonomous Vehicles

Articles

Gatik Raises 00M Series D to Scale Autonomous Middle-Mile Trucking Fleet

Xiaomi Unveils Custom Silicon Roadmap with 6nm Xring O100 AI Accelerator and 3nm D100 Smart-Driving Processor

Nevada Approves Commercial Robotaxi Permits for Up to 8,000 Vehicles Across Tesla, Waymo, and Uber

Waymo Details Custom 5nm ASIC and Heterogeneous Compute Architecture for Robotaxis

Waymo Brings Gemini Voice Assistant to Custom Ojai Robotaxis

Nvidia Opens Alpamayo 2 Super for Commercial Use