Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that the fully autonomous driving (FSD) system Tesla's is currently the most advanced driver assistance system available. Nvidia exec claims Tesla is "far ahead" than its competitors in autonomous driving technology.
„One of the really revolutionary things about version 12 of Tesla's fully autonomous driving is that it's an end-to-end generative model. He learns by "watching" on video and learns how to drive the car. Using generative artificial intelligence, the system predicts the road and understands how to drive the car.
So this technology is really revolutionary and the work that Tesla is doing is amazing. ... This technology is very similar to the technology of large language models, but it just requires a huge amount of training, “ Huang said in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Finance.
In the first quarter, Nvidia reported revenue from automotive companies of $329 million. That's a small fraction of the amount the company earns from data center maintenance, but that share grew 11% year over year.
The company's customers include Tesla, which previously purchased 35,000 H100 GPUs to train its fully autonomous driving system. Her FSD is still considered a Level 2 stand-alone system, meaning it requires supervised use. The system was pulled and scrutinized by regulators.
The latest version of FSD (12) is currently in beta testing. Tesla recently dropped the price of FSD to $99 (from $199) per month, with a one-time payment of $8,000 (down from $12,000).