en.Wedoany.com Reported - On April 15, 2026, UK-based autonomous driving technology company Wayve announced it has secured a $60 million investment from AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm Ventures as an extension of its Series D funding round announced in February this year. With this addition, Wayve's total committed capital for its Series D round has reached $1.5 billion, with a post-money valuation of $8.6 billion. Alex Kendall, Co-founder and CEO of Wayve, stated that bringing these three semiconductor giants on board as investors gives Wayve coverage of nearly all mainstream computing architectures in the automotive industry, offering automakers design choices and supply chain flexibility.
Previously, in February 2026, Wayve announced the completion of a $1.2 billion Series D funding round co-led by Eclipse, Balderton, and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Uber, and automakers Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Stellantis. With the addition of AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm Ventures, Wayve's investor base now covers the world's major semiconductor companies, including NVIDIA, AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm. The computing platforms of these four chip giants encompass almost all potential computing solutions that automakers might adopt.
Founded in 2017, Wayve builds autonomous driving systems using end-to-end deep learning technology. It does not rely on high-definition maps but trains a single foundational model on large-scale global driving data to achieve cross-vehicle and cross-brand autonomous driving capabilities. The Wayve AI Driver covers various scenarios from L2+ advanced driver assistance systems to L3/L4 autonomous driving, running entirely on in-vehicle computing platforms using only native sensors. In 2025, Wayve completed its AI-500 road test, successfully testing the AI Driver in over 500 cities across Europe, North America, and Japan without city-specific fine-tuning.
On the commercialization front, Wayve has signed a mass production cooperation agreement with Nissan to integrate the AI Driver into the next-generation ProPILOT driver assistance system. The first mass-production vehicles are expected to launch in markets including Japan starting from the 2027 fiscal year. Wayve also announced a collaboration with Qualcomm in March 2026 to offer pre-integrated AI Driver solutions on the Snapdragon Ride platform, helping automakers quickly deploy Wayve's artificial intelligence technology. In the autonomous taxi (Robotaxi) sector, Wayve, Uber, and Nissan signed a Memorandum of Understanding in March 2026, planning to launch a Robotaxi pilot operation in Tokyo by the end of 2026. Furthermore, Wayve has a long-term collaboration with NVIDIA. A Nissan Robotaxi prototype, running the Wayve AI Driver on dual NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor processors, was showcased at the NVIDIA GTC conference in March 2026 on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform.
The competition in the autonomous driving sector is intensifying. Alphabet's Waymo has been conducting tests in the US, Japan, and the UK, recently announcing that its test vehicles in London are now on the road with safety drivers, with plans to offer passenger services to the public later this year. By bringing in AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm Ventures, Wayve has further expanded its investor lineup and strengthened its position to compete with rivals like Waymo. Kendall stated that expanding collaboration with leading semiconductor companies helps bring Wayve's embodied AI technology to mass production globally, and the company is actively advancing integration and deployment efforts with these partners.
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