Pony.ai builds next-gen autonomous controller on Nvidia platform

Pony.ai has announced a new autonomous driving domain controller developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, built on the NVIDIA Drive Hyperion platform and powered by Drive AGX Thor. The system is designed to serve both Pony.ai’s own L4 robotaxi platform and third-party customers across autonomous mobility applications.

The controller supports flexible single and multi-chip configurations, with NVIDIA NVLink enabling high-speed communication between two Drive Thor SoCs for a combined maximum performance of 4,000 FP4 TFLOPS. It is engineered to handle multi-sensor fusion, full-scenario perception, and high-complexity scenario understanding while meeting L4 safety redundancy requirements.

Pony.ai’s “Fangzai” domain controller — the commercial predecessor — saw shipments grow more than 500% year-on-year in 2025, with customers across Germany, the UK, South Korea, Japan, and Switzerland. The new platform is intended to extend that business across a wider range of applications including delivery, logistics, mining, and autonomous shuttles.

On the robotaxi side, Pony.ai has reached unit-economics breakeven in two Chinese metropolitan markets and is targeting a fleet of more than 3,000 vehicles across more than 20 cities globally by the end of 2026. The company’s collaboration with NVIDIA dates to 2017.

Source: PRNewsWire