Uber and Israeli autonomous-driving startup Autobrains announced a partnership to launch a robotaxi program in Munich, built on Nvidia's DRIVE Hyperion Level 4 platform. Unveiled June 1 at the GPU Technology Conference in Taipei, Munich will be the first deployment city, pending regulatory approval.
Rather than a single end-to-end model, Autobrains uses an "agentic AI" system that splits driving into specialized agents, each focused on a specific scenario and reasoning across possible actions in real time. "Autonomous driving will not scale by relying on a single model to solve every driving scenario," said Autobrains CEO Igal Raichelgauz.
Munich was chosen as a leading European automotive hub with a clear German regulatory framework. The partners are pursuing an OEM-agnostic model designed to scale across vehicle platforms and cities. "The challenge is not just building autonomous vehicles - it is bringing them into a commercial network," said Uber autonomous mobility head Sarfraz Maredia.