Aurora, Continental, and NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale, powered by the next-gen NVIDIA DRIVE Thor system-on-a-chip.

Aurora Innovation's shares rose 35% on Tuesday after the self-driving technology developer announced a long-term deal with Nvidia and Germany's Continental to deploy driverless trucks.

At CES in Las Vegas, Nvidia announced that Toyota, Aurora and Continental will equip their vehicle fleets with Nvidia's Drive technology. This concerns

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Shares of Aurora Innovation jumped more than 30% Tuesday morning after the self-driving software company announced a partnership with tech giant Nvidia and manufacturer Continental to develop self-driving trucks.

Driverless trucks are expected to start hauling freight on Interstate 45 between the Dallas and Houston areas with 20 driverless trucks in the near term

Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ:AUR) shares are trading higher premarket on Tuesday. On Monday, the company inked a long-term partnership with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Continental AG (OTC:CTTAF) to scale driverless trucks using NVIDIA’s next-gen DRIVE Thor SoC.

US artificial intelligence (AI) chipmaker Nvidia Corp announced a partnership with three international mobility companies on Tuesday to build fleets of vehicles operating on Nvidia technology. The mobility companies are Japanese carmkaing giant Toyota Motor Corp,

Building on NVIDIA DRIVE™, Aurora’s SAE Level 4 autonomous-driving system will integrate with NVIDIA’s accelerated compute running DriveOS.

NVIDIA’s DRIVE Thor and DriveOS will be integrated into the Aurora Driver, an autonomous driving system that Continental plans to mass-manufacture in 2027.