Nvidia, the US chip company at the centre of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, is partnering with Einride to help the Swedish freight group move its network towards driverless operation.
Rather than running any vehicles itself, Nvidia will supply the on-board computing and AI software that the trucks need to drive themselves.
Under the deal, Einride will adapt Nvidia's DRIVE Hyperion platform, a package of sensors and processors for self-driving vehicles, for heavy-duty trucking.
It will also use two other Nvidia tools: Cosmos, which generates simulated driving data to train the system, and Halos, which handles safety testing.
Einride said its fleet already ran to hundreds of electric trucks and that it expected to grow to between 1,500 and 2,000 vehicles by 2028, with about 80% of current customer demand suited to automation.
"We have the customers, the operational experience and the technology," said Henrik Green, Einride's chief technology officer.
The company will run Nvidia's Blackwell chips, its latest generation, through a cloud partner to develop and test its models, while keeping engineering, safety certification, regulatory approval and customer rollouts in-house.
Einride, which floated on New York's Nasdaq exchange this summer and counts PepsiCo among its customers, already runs a driverless service on one route for GE Appliances and expanded its manned electric-truck operations with Amazon earlier this year.
