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Li Auto's VLA Driver model is a vision-language-action driving model that began reaching customers with the Li i8 in August 2025 and was pushed to all AD Max users via OTA 8.0 in September 2025.

ChinaConsumer appsRobotics

Kiro is Amazon Web Services' agentic IDE, announced in July 2025, which turns a prompt into user stories, a design document and a task list before writing code — an approach its makers call spec-driven development.

Agents & tool useDeveloper toolsCloud

Tesla Robotaxi is Tesla's ride-hailing service, in which passengers hail autonomous vehicles through the company's app; its dedicated two-seat Cybercab has no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors. Limited service began in Austin in June 2025.

EnterpriseConsumer appsRobotics

Huawei's intelligent driving system released in Shanghai on 22 April 2025, built on a cloud-plus-vehicle WEWA architecture and offered in four versions, the flagship carrying a dedicated highway L3 package.

ChinaRoboticsHardware & compute

SGLang is an open-source system for running complex language model programs: a frontend language plus a runtime that reuses cached attention state and speeds up structured output, reporting up to 6.4x higher throughput than prior inference systems.

Large language modelsOpen sourceDeveloper tools

Amazon Q is a generative AI assistant for work from AWS. It was announced in preview at re:Invent on 28 November 2023, respects each user's permissions and became generally available as Amazon Q Business on 30 April 2024.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

TensorRT-LLM is NVIDIA's open-source library for speeding up and optimizing large language model inference on NVIDIA GPUs, publicly released on 19 October 2023 and usable free from GitHub or as part of NVIDIA NeMo.

Large language modelsHardware & computeDeveloper tools

Amazon Bedrock is AWS's managed, serverless service for accessing foundation models from several companies, announced on 13 April 2023. It became generally available in September 2023 and added Amazon's own Nova models and the AgentCore agent platform later.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useFoundation models

vLLM is an open-source serving system for large language models, built on PagedAttention, which manages the KV cache the way an operating system manages virtual memory. It reports 2-4x higher throughput than earlier serving systems at the same latency.

Large language modelsOpen sourceDeveloper tools

OpenRouter is a marketplace and gateway for large language models, started in early 2023, that lets developers reach hundreds of models from many providers through one interface. It reports more than 10 million users and a $113 million Series B.

Large language modelsProduct historyDeveloper tools

Tesla's most advanced driver-assistance package, sold as a $99 monthly subscription. It steers, changes lanes, follows routes and parks, while the driver stays responsible and the car is not autonomous.

Consumer appsRoboticsSafety & governance

Waymo's app-based ride-hailing service, in which the car drives itself. It was the first service to carry public passengers without a safety driver, and it is how Waymo brings autonomous driving to ordinary riders.

EnterpriseConsumer appsRobotics

The OpenAI API is OpenAI's commercial developer platform, announced on 11 June 2020 with GPT-3. Over the following years it grew into a platform for building AI agents, adding the Responses API, Agents SDK, AgentKit and other tools.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

The Hugging Face Hub is the platform where people share machine-learning models, datasets and demo apps. By September 2026 it had more than 3 million models and 18 million users.

Open sourceFoundation modelsData & datasets

Amazon SageMaker is AWS's fully managed service for building, training and hosting machine learning models, announced in 2017. It combines hosted notebooks, distributed training and scalable inference endpoints, and each part can be used on its own.

EnterpriseDeveloper toolsCloud

Apache MXNet is an open-source deep learning library that offers both symbolic and imperative programming, runs from mobile devices to GPU clusters, and ships bindings for eight languages. Its paper was posted in December 2015 by Tianqi Chen, Mu Li and colleagues.

Open sourceDeep learningDeveloper tools

The AIBO Performer Kit (model ERF-510) is a motion editor released by Sony alongside its ERS-110 robot, letting owners write original movements for the robot on a personal computer and load them with an included Memory Stick.

Consumer appsProduct historyRobotics

NASA's Mars Pathfinder lander touched down on July 4, 1997, deployed the small Sojourner rover, used an airbag landing system for the first time, and returned thousands of images of the Martian surface.

Research historyRoboticsHardware & compute

ALVINN was a 1988 Carnegie Mellon neural network that learned to steer the Navlab van by watching a human driver, an early demonstration of learned end-to-end driving.

Research historyDeep learningRobotics

XNGP is XPENG's advanced driver assistance system, developed full stack in-house; its next generation, VLA 2.0, generates driving actions directly from visual signals and is slated for mass production in 2026.

ChinaConsumer appsRobotics

Apollo Go is Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing service. It reported more than 2.2 million fully driverless rides in the second quarter of 2025, had passed 14 million cumulative rides by August 2025, and is expanding through testing permits and partnerships with Uber and Lyft.

ChinaConsumer appsRobotics

AutoNav is the autonomous driving software used by NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers. It combines stereo vision, GESTALT terrain assessment, Visual Odometry, and Field D* path planning to let rovers choose and drive safe paths without step-by-step direction from Earth.

Research historyRoboticsComputer vision

Google's self-driving car prototype was a modified production car that used cameras, radar and a roof-mounted laser range finder to sense traffic, drove routes that had been mapped in advance by manually driven cars, and always carried a trained safety driver and a software operator.

Research historyProduct historyRobotics

Soccer Server is a software simulator of soccer, begun by Itsuki Noda as a platform for multi-agent systems research, which later became the official soccer server of RoboCup.

Research historyOpen sourceRobotics

NVIDIA's robotics development platform for simulation, training, perception, and deployment.

RoboticsDeveloper toolsSimulation