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An AI model from over a decade ago sparked Nvidia’s investment in autonomous vehicles

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote Tuesday at the company’s GTC 2025 conference stuck with tradition and was chock full of announcements. But the company also snuck in a little history lesson. During the automotive portion of his speech, Huang referred to AlexNet, a neural network architecture that gained widespread attention in 2012 when it won […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.



Nvidia's investment in autonomous vehicles was sparked by the AlexNet AI model, which gained recognition in 2012 for its accuracy in image recognition. CEO Jensen Huang cited AlexNet as inspiring Nvidia to fully commit to self-driving cars, leading to partnerships with automakers and the development of products like Omniverse for virtual vehicle testing.

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