Wayve receives $60m investment from AMD, Arm and Qualcomm

Funding will accelerate global deployment of embodied AI Driver in automotive and robotaxi applications

Wayve, a UK company developing embodied AI for autonomous driving has attracted $60m investment from technology companies Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Arm and Qualcomm Ventures.

The investment builds on Wayve’s $1.2 billion Series D, which was backed by leading financial investors, global technology companies and automakers.

The funding announcement comes as the London-based business deploys the Wayve AI Driver in production vehicles.

Wayve is developing end-to-end embodied AI software that enables point-to-point navigation across different environments and vehicles, spanning Level 2+ “hands off” to L3/L4 “eyes off” driving without relying on high-definition maps. Unlike autonomous driving systems built for a specific car or hardware setup, the Wayve AI Driver is designed to run across a wide range of vehicle platforms and configurations.

As the automotive industry moves toward deploying AI-driven vehicles at scale, the ability to run systems such as AI Driver across different automotive compute platforms is becoming critical. 

Wayve’s investors now include a broad group of leading technology companies that span the automotive compute stack, ranging from platforms widely used in vehicles today to those expected to power the next generation of autonomous vehicles. Wayve says this alignment will make it easier for automakers and fleet operators to deploy the Wayve AI Driver by reducing integration complexity and accelerating time to market.

The new investment will support integration across automotive compute platforms and continued deployment of the Wayve AI Driver in production systems for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving. It also reflects growing engagement from investors to accelerate engineering integration and joint go-to-market efforts with Wayve. This includes Wayve's longstanding work with NVIDIA across AI training and next-generation vehicles such as the Nissan robotaxi prototype built on NVIDIA Drive Hyperion and the Wayve AI Driver. 

The funding will also support Wayve's previously announced collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. to deliver a pre-integrated AI Driver solution on the Snapdragon Ride Platform with Active Safety software, simplifying implementation for automakers. 

Alex Kendall, co-founder and chief executive of Wayve, said: “For embodied AI to scale, automakers need design choice and supply chain flexibility. We’re building an AI Driver that works across the full automotive compute ecosystem, from architectures already used in millions of vehicles today to the platforms powering the next generation of automated vehicles. Expanding our relationships with leading silicon companies helps bring that into production at a global scale, and we’re delighted to have these partners actively working with us on integration and deployment.”

Founded in 2017, Wayve is a UK self-driving company pioneering embodied AI for autonomous driving. The company develops end-to-end AI software that enables vehicles to learn, perceive, understand, and navigate complex real-world environments.

Wayve's AV2.0 approach centres on a unified foundation model trained on large-scale, globally diverse data. Unlike traditional rule-based and map-dependent systems, Wayve's AI Driver is designed to generalize across markets and vehicle platforms without location-specific engineering.

In 2025, Wayve signed a production partnership with the Nissan Motor Co to integrate its AI Driver into Nissan’s next-generation ProPILOT driver-assistance systems, with the first mass-produced vehicles expected to launch in Japan and other global markets from fiscal year 2027.

Also in 2025, Wayve and Uber announced plans to launch public robotaxi trials starting in London in 2026.