Volvo Cars is expanding its partnership with Nvidia to bring more advanced hands-free and automated driving features to future models, with plans to extend the technology across its lineup — including hybrids and gasoline-powered cars — without limiting it to electric vehicles. The expansion was announced through matching press releases from Volvo Cars and Nvidia.

Three pieces of Nvidia tech headed for future Volvos

According to the announcements, Volvo will incorporate three Nvidia technologies into its next generation of vehicles: the Hyperion sensor and computing architecture, the Alpamayo driving software stack, and Halos, Nvidia's safety evaluation layer. The companies say the combined system will debut in a next-generation Volvo car.

The stated goal is to enable fully autonomous travel from start to finish, driving on highways and city streets as well as navigating parking areas.

Volvo has not disclosed any financial figures tied to the partnership, and it has not said which models will be the first to receive the new technology. Which model debuts the system first, and on what commercial terms, are the main details to watch as the next-generation Volvo moves from announcement toward production. Nvidia announced the news through its official X account on October 15, 2026:

When the brand synonymous with car safety for almost 100 years teams up with AI, amazing things happen. 🚗 We're expanding our partnership with Volvo Cars to advance safe automated driving: Volvo's safety expertise will come together with the NVIDIA Hyperion, Halos OS and Alpamayo Stack driving software, debuting in a next-generation Volvo car. Read the news: — NVIDIA (@nvidia) October 15, 2026

Ali Kani on running two stacks at once

Nvidia's automotive chief, Ali Kani, said Alpamayo uses multiple layers of safeguards designed to improve safety. It combines Alpamayo's suite of AI models, datasets, and simulation tools for developing autonomous-driving software with a more traditional software stack that uses machine learning alongside camera and radar perception.

The two systems also operate simultaneously, Kani explained, with the use of multiple sensor types adding another layer of protection.

Kani added that developers have already downloaded the open-source Alpamayo software more than 650,000 times.

Two CEOs, one safety pitch

Volvo president and CEO Håkan Samuelsson stated in the press release that the automaker had spent almost the last century building its well-known reputation for safety. He added that the expanded partnership combines Volvo's safety expertise with “world-class AI technology.”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated in the press release that the partnership aims to make future cars safer and easier to drive.

Background

Volvo and Nvidia have worked together since 2017 — a collaboration that already places Nvidia's DRIVE Orin platform at the core of Volvo's flagship EX90 SUV — and the new agreement deepens a partnership spanning nearly a decade. Volvo, founded in 1927 and owned by China's Geely Holding since 2010, sold more than 710,000 vehicles in 2025, 46% of them electric — so extending the technology beyond EVs would put it within reach of the majority of the brand's buyers. Nvidia has also expanded its automotive business through partnerships such as its work with autonomous trucking company Einride, and it has pursued similar collaborations with passenger-car makers — Mercedes-Benz said in 2020 that its automated-driving functions would run on Nvidia's software and computing platform.