Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA have agreed to extend their strategic partnership on driver assistance and automated driving, with the aim of building the next generation of systems together. The two companies announced the expansion on 16 October 2026, in NVIDIA’s newsroom and in a Mercedes-Benz press release from Stuttgart and Santa Clara. The pitch is a joined-up stack: Mercedes-Benz supplies its engineering and MB.OS operating system, while NVIDIA supplies the compute, driving software and safety layers.
What each side brings
On the Mercedes-Benz side, MB.OS handles new driving functions and over-the-air updates. It works with NVIDIA Hyperion, the in-vehicle computing and sensor architecture. On top of that sits NVIDIA Alpamayo Stack, full-stack driving software with AI reasoning that covers point-to-point urban assistance, active safety and automated parking.
The third piece is NVIDIA Halos, which adds to Mercedes-Benz’s existing safety foundation. According to the release, Halos includes a parallel safety stack that adds redundancy and guardrails. Together, the companies say, these technologies support advanced driver assistance and the development of future SAE Level 4 applications, including robolimousines. Level 4 is the tier at which a vehicle drives itself within defined conditions.
Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management and Chief Technology Officer, Development & Procurement at Mercedes-Benz Group AG, called NVIDIA the company’s “most important strategic partner in automated driving”. He pointed to the urban point-to-point assistance system the two built together, which Mercedes-Benz describes as the first of its kind for the western world. NVIDIA’s Ali Kani, Vice President of Automotive, said the companies are building on Hyperion to bring “full-stack safety” to the road.
Beyond the car
The deal reaches past the driving experience. Mercedes-Benz says it also relies on NVIDIA technologies for vehicle engineering simulation and inside MO360, its digital production ecosystem, from virtual planning to AI-based applications. The two partners are working to improve efficiency, flexibility and quality across Mercedes-Benz’s global production network.
That makes the partnership as much about how Mercedes-Benz builds cars as how they drive. It also fits a wider pattern for NVIDIA, which is spreading well beyond graphics cards, as in the leaked Arm laptops from Lenovo and Dell and its reported talks to invest in Perplexity.
Is Level 4 driving coming to Mercedes-Benz cars now?
Not yet. The release describes the stack as supporting the development of future SAE Level 4 applications and gives no launch dates, vehicles, or markets.
Does Mercedes-Benz already use NVIDIA technology in cars on sale?
Yes. In its fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 results filing, NVIDIA said the all-new Mercedes-Benz CLA introduces enhanced Level 2 driver assistance powered by NVIDIA DRIVE AV software and accelerated compute. This latest announcement covers the next phase of that work.
