Nissan Cars Will Soon Have Wayve AI Driving System
The London-based startup made headlines last year after securing $1 billion in funding—Europe’s largest AI raise in 2023
Nissan Motor is teaming up with Wayve Technologies to develop the next generation of its ProPilot driver-assist system, set to debut in vehicles within the next two years.
With this, Nissan becomes the first global automaker to announce the integration of Wayve’s AI technology into production vehicles.
Nissan will launch its next-generation ProPILOT system in fiscal year 2027, integrating advanced Lidar with its Ground Truth Perception technology and Wayve’s AI Driver software.
The London-based startup made headlines last year after securing $1 billion in funding—Europe’s largest AI raise in 2023—in a round led by SoftBank Group.
"Wayve AI Driver software, built on Wayve’s embodied AI foundation model, is designed to handle highly complex real-world driving conditions in a human-like manner. The technology’s ability to efficiently and rapidly learn from vast amounts of data ensures continuous advantage to Nissan vehicles in the future," Wayve said in a press release.
Last month, the startup unveiled GAIA-2, its latest video-generative world model designed to accelerate the development of assisted and autonomous driving systems.
As a major upgrade to GAIA-1, GAIA-2 offers more realistic, diverse, and controllable synthetic data tailored for driving scenarios.
Built specifically for automotive use, GAIA-2 simulates complex environments across multiple camera views, enabling scalable and safe training of AI driving models.
It introduces fine-grained control over road agents, weather, and road layouts, and is trained on a wide dataset from the UK, US, and Germany.
GAIA-2 ensures high realism and spatial-temporal consistency for validating next-gen driver-assist systems.
