The partnership will integrate Wayve’s AI Driver into Stellantis’ STLA AutoDrive platform, with a prototype built in less than 2 months.
On Thursday, Stellantis and Wayve announced a strategic partnership to integrate Wayve's AI Driver into the STLA AutoDrive platform, targeting a 2028 North American launch for hands-free, supervised Level 2++ driving.
Building on a recent strategic investment, the London-based startup Wayve combines its mapless, vehicle-agnostic AI with Stellantis' global manufacturing scale and engineering expertise.
Engineers developed a prototype in less than 2 months, with software designed to adapt across different compute stacks, sensors, and vehicle sizes using an end-to-end neural network.
Wayve CEO Alex Kendall called this a commercial contract to scale technology that will compete with hands-free systems already available on Tesla and Rivian vehicles.
The partnership supports Stellantis' $70 billion turnaround plan, which includes launching 11 new vehicles by 2030, with the AI architecture designed to scale efficiently across diverse markets over time.