Wayve

Wayve is a British company, founded in 2017, developing embodied AI technology that allows autonomous vehicles to learn to navigate complex real-world environments. Its approach, termed AV2.0, replaces traditional hand-engineered autonomous driving stacks with end-to-end deep learning systems that acquire driving competence from experience rather than from rule-based programming. The work spans foundation models designed to understand and interact with the physical world, as well as the machine learning infrastructure required to train and deploy them.

The company's principal product, the Wayve AI Driver, is mapless and hardware-agnostic autonomous driving software intended for integration by automotive manufacturers seeking to deploy automated driving across vehicle fleets. Wayve operates in the automotive and autonomous vehicle sectors and has raised $1.3 billion in total funding, with investors including SoftBank, Microsoft and NVIDIA.

Wayve runs global operations from bases in London, Silicon Valley and Vancouver, spanning the UK, US and Canada.