Why did Rivian choose to develop its own in-house AI inference chip?
Replied byRJ Scaringe
Founder & CEO at Rivian
Niche: Technology
Revenue: Approx. $460 Million /month
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Started: 2009
The most expensive part of a self-driving system is the brain, not the cameras or sensors. Developing our own inference platform in-house allows us to build extremely cost-effective, high-compute vehicles prepared for autonomous driving.
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