Announcements around these topics headlined Rivian\u2019s first \u201cAutonomy and AI Day\u201d in Palo Alto on Thursday, where executives highlighted a slew of tech advancements the EV startup is slated to roll out in the near future.<\/p>\n
Let the chips fall:\u00a0<\/strong>Rivian execs announced the development of custom silicon that will underpin its next-generation autonomy platform and that they said would deliver cost, performance, and speed benefits.<\/p>\n \u201cOur updated hardware platform, which includes our in-house 1600 sparse TOPS inference chip, will enable us to achieve dramatic progress in self-driving to ultimately deliver on our goal of delivering L4,\u201d Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe said in a statement.<\/p>\n Execs unveiled what they\u2019re calling the Rivian Autonomy Processor, or RAP1, described in a news release as \u201ca custom 5nm processor that integrates processing and memory onto a single multi-chip module.\u201d The RAP1 will support Rivian\u2019s third-gen autonomy computer, dubbed ACM3, which the company said will have the power to process 5 billion pixels per second.<\/p>\n The company plans to roll out the new third-gen autonomy hardware in\u00a0R2 models<\/a>\u00a0beginning in late 2026.<\/p>\n \u201cWith our in-house silicon development, we\u2019re able to start our software development almost a year ahead of what we can do with supplier silicon,\u201d Vidya Rajagopalan, Rivian\u2019s SVP of electrical hardware, said during a livestream of the event.<\/p>\n Additionally, executives announced that future models of its\u00a0second-gen vehicle lineup<\/a>, R2, will have lidar sensors integrated into the sensor suite, supplementing cameras and radar. Rajagopalan said the decision to introduce lidar came down to improvements in the sensors\u2019 cost, performance, and design in recent years.<\/p>\n \u201cCamera is the main workhorse of our sensor suite, generating the bulk of the data fed to the models,\u201d she said, \u201cbut the radar and lidar are critical to addressing the edge cases which would otherwise create the long tail of problem cases.\u201d<\/p>\n Hands off:\u00a0<\/strong>Rivian unveiled the company\u2019s Large Driving Model, or LDM, \u201ca foundational autonomous model trained like a large language model.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWith the deployment of our Gen 2 R1s, we began the process of building our data flywheel to grow and build our large driving model,\u201d Scaringe said.<\/p>\n \u201cOur approach to building self-driving is really designed around this data flywheel, where a deployed fleet has a carefully designed data policy that allows us to identify important and interesting events that we can use to train our large model offline before distilling the model back down into the vehicle,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n To that end, Rivian plans to roll out software updates to\u00a0second-gen R1 vehicles<\/a>, soon to expand hands-free assisted driving across 3.5 million miles of roads in the US and Canada. Next year, the company will launch a subscription package for autonomy features priced at a one-time cost of $2,500, or $49.99 per month.<\/p>\n Scaringe said the Gen 3 autonomy platform also will be able to do point-to-point journeys, and sketched out a vision in which Rivian\u2019s autonomy capabilities incrementally improve over time, eventually enabling eyes-off driving and fully autonomous driving\u2014and maybe even give Rivian an opportunity to hop into the robotaxi race.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile our initial focus will be on personally owned vehicles, which today represent a vast majority of the miles driven in the United States, this also enables us to pursue opportunities in the rideshare space,\u201d Scaringe said.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s chat:\u00a0<\/strong>In early 2026, Rivian plans to debut a new\u00a0AI voice tool<\/a>\u00a0called Rivian Assistant on Gen 1 and Gen 2 R1 vehicles. While the assistant will be able to connect to third-party apps like Google<\/a> Calendar, it will be underpinned by Rivian Unified Intelligence, a \u201cshared, multi-modal, and multi-LLM foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDirectly controlling our network architecture and our software platforms in our vehicles has of course created an opportunity for us to deliver amazingly rich software,\u201d Scaringe said, \u201cbut perhaps even more importantly, this is the foundation of enabling AI across our vehicles and our business.\u201d<\/p>\n This report was originally published<\/a> by Tech Brew<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announcements around these topics headlined Rivian\u2019s first \u201cAutonomy and AI Day\u201d in Palo Alto on Thursday, where executives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,32128,18,8888,19,17,22548,124804,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-234833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-chips","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-electric-vehicles","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-morning-brew","17":"tag-rivian-motors","18":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115726366982536306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}