South Korea's Kakao Mobility collaborates with NVIDIA to jointly advance the development of L4 level autonomous driving technology. The company plans to combine its self-developed autonomous driving AI with NVIDIA's high-performance computing power, sensors, and safety technologies, and will be the first to deploy them in Kia's specialized vehicle models ( PBV), paving the way for the commercialization of driverless services.

Both parties plan to combine Kakao Mobility's self-developed autonomous driving AI model with NVIDIA's computing power infrastructure and optimization technologies to develop an L4 autonomous driving system that meets global technical standards. Relying on the autonomous driving technology that has already been tested in the downtown area of Seoul's Gangnam, Kakao Mobility will, on one hand, advance its commercialization in the domestic market, and in the medium to long term, will also assess the possibility of expanding overseas.

The focus of the cooperation lies in enhancing the computing power and system stability of autonomous driving AI. Kakao Mobility is developing end-to-end autonomous driving technology, integrating environmental perception and driving decisions into a single AI model. To support this approach, the company will adopt high-performance autonomous driving computing units equipped with two NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor in-vehicle AI computing platforms.

The project simultaneously adopts NVIDIA's sensor and computing power reference architecture Hyperion. The solution will optimize the links between vehicles, sensors, and computing units to ensure system stability and compatibility. NVIDIA's integrated security framework Halos will also be used in the development and verification of autonomous driving software to enhance security redundancy.

The technical solutions of both parties will be prioritized for application on Kia's specialized vehicle models. Kakao Mobility reached a cooperation with Kia in July to jointly develop specialized vehicle models adapted for autonomous driving services. With the implementation of this new agreement, Kakao Mobility's self-developed autonomous driving software, NVIDIA AI's computing power and security technologies will be integrated into Kia vehicles, advancing the development and delivery of L4's autonomous driving service models.