Aurora, Continental, and NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale, powered by the next-gen NVIDIA DRIVE Thor system-on-a-chip.

Aurora Innovation's shares rose 35% on Tuesday after the self-driving technology developer announced a long-term deal with Nvidia and Germany's Continental to deploy driverless trucks.

Shares of Aurora Innovation jumped more than 30% Tuesday morning after the self-driving software company announced a partnership with tech giant Nvidia and manufacturer Continental to develop self-driving trucks.

Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ:AUR) shares are trading higher premarket on Tuesday. On Monday, the company inked a long-term partnership with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Continental AG (OTC:CTTAF) to scale driverless trucks using NVIDIA’s next-gen DRIVE Thor SoC.

At CES in Las Vegas, Nvidia announced that Toyota, Aurora and Continental will equip their vehicle fleets with Nvidia's Drive technology. This concerns

Driverless trucks are expected to start hauling freight on Interstate 45 between the Dallas and Houston areas with 20 driverless trucks in the near term

Shares of autonomous trucking start-up Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ: AUR) were trading sharply higher on Tuesday morning, after the company announced a major deal with Nvidia and Continental to build thousands of self-driving trucks.

Building on NVIDIA DRIVE™, Aurora’s SAE Level 4 autonomous-driving system will integrate with NVIDIA’s accelerated compute running DriveOS.

US artificial intelligence (AI) chipmaker Nvidia Corp announced a partnership with three international mobility companies on Tuesday to build fleets of vehicles operating on Nvidia technology. The mobility companies are Japanese carmkaing giant Toyota Motor Corp,

A new generative training model and a batch of new partnerships position Nvidia as one of the driving forces in autonomous driving tech.

Call it Nvidia's Midas touch: whatever the company touches tends to turn into gold. Why it matters: Nvidia is an increasingly powerful force driving the AI economy with a market cap of well over $3 trillion.