Qualcomm and Wayve advance Production-Ready End-to-End AI
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Wayve announced a technical collaboration that expands automaker choice with an advanced production‑ready ADAS and AD system for automakers worldwide. The collaboration brings Wayve AI Driver as an end‑to‑end AI driving intelligence layer to Qualcomm Technologies’ high‑performance, field‑proven Snapdragon Ride, consisting of system-on-chips (SoCs) and tightly integrated Active Safety software, delivering a pre‑integrated system that enables regulatory and hands-off ADAS deployment, expanding to broader driving environments and hands-off, eyes-off capabilities. Focused on simplifying implementation and meeting automaker priorities around safety, reliability, scalability, and time-to-market, the collaboration is generating strong interest from automakers.
“ADAS is where scale, safety, and real‑world impact matter most for automakers today,” said Anshuman Saxena, Vice President and GM, ADAS and Robotics, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “Snapdragon Ride is built to support the widest range of long‑term platform strategies, enabling automakers to standardize across programs and regions while retaining flexibility. Together with Wayve, we’re empowering automakers with more choice for how advanced driving systems are developed, deployed, and scaled, while also helping them reduce development cycles, effort and risk.”
“Wayve AI Driver is designed as a flexible, vehicle-agnostic software that serves as the intelligence layer for autonomy for any vehicle, anywhere. Our collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies provides global automakers building on Snapdragon Ride with a streamlined path to deploy market-leading, end-to-end AI automated driving capability alongside Qualcomm's Active Safety stack,” said Alex Kendall, Co‑founder and CEO of Wayve. “By combining our embodied AI driving intelligence with Qualcomm Technologies’ compute performance, platform maturity and global scale, we are expanding choice and delivering immediate value to automakers across ADAS and automated driving systems, with natural progression from hands-off to eyes-off operation.”
Designed to serve as an advanced ADAS/AD foundation, the pre‑integrated platform enables automakers to deploy highly capable, advanced features quickly, while also enabling customization, future scaling and upgrading. By reducing the integration complexity of bringing together the SoC, active safety systems and the AI Driver, automakers can implement advanced, reliable ADAS/AD faster and with less time and effort. The system is engineered to support global deployment and long‑term vehicle lifecycle and platform strategies. As part of the collaboration, Qualcomm Technologies and Wayve intend to explore opportunities to leverage Qualcomm Technologies’ SoCs in future Level 4 (L4) robotaxi applications.
