Autonomous driving
4 labs · 15 models and products Theme: Companies · Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Labs page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".Autonomous driving AI lets a vehicle see the road, predict what other road users will do, and steer, brake and accelerate without a human driver. Wayve builds self-driving software that learns to drive from data and can be fitted to different makes of car (per the site); its GAIA "world models" generate driving video for training and testing. Waymo, the US self-driving company, has engineering hubs in London and Oxford and says it intends to offer driverless rides in London in 2026. Government pilots of self-driving taxi and bus services were brought forward to spring 2026.
Context
- The government brought forward pilots of self-driving taxi- and bus-like services by a year, to spring 2026. 10 June 2025 gov.uk/government/news/driving-innovation-38000-
pilots of self-driving taxi- and bus-like services will be brought forward by a year to spring 2026
- A wider rollout depends on the full Automated Vehicles Act becoming law from the second half of 2027. 10 June 2025 gov.uk/government/news/driving-innovation-38000-
when the full Automated Vehicles Act becomes law from the second half of 2027.
- The government says the self-driving industry could create 38,000 jobs and add £42 billion to the UK economy by 2035. 10 June 2025 gov.uk/government/news/driving-innovation-38000-
industry could create 38,000 jobs and add £42 billion to the UK economy by 2035
- The AI Opportunities Action Plan names Wayve, with Google DeepMind and Arm, as UK AI firms. 13 January 2025 gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-
pioneering AI firms like Google DeepMind, ARM, and Wayve.
- Waymo said it intends to offer driverless rides in London in 2026. 15 October 2025 waymo.com/blog/2025/10/hello-london-your-waymo-r
we intend to offer rides – with no human behind the wheel – in 2026.
- Waymo's first engineering hubs outside the US are in London and Oxford. 15 October 2025 waymo.com/blog/2025/10/hello-london-your-waymo-r
London and Oxford are home to our first international engineering hubs.
Key papers
- Learning to Drive in a Day arXiv preprint · 1 July 2018
- GAIA-1: A Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving arXiv preprint · 29 September 2023
- GAIA-2: A Controllable Multi-View Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving arXiv preprint · 26 March 2025
Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026): introduction and facts as the researchers wrote them; "(per the site)" marks a sentence resting on this site's own description of that lab.
| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CarLLaVAChips, models and products | A Wayve research model that uses a vision-language model to drive with cameras only. released (paper)Key facts Paper dated 14 Jun 2024 (arXiv 2406.10165, listed on Wayve Labs).Made by Wayve · 2024-06-14 | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/labs/ | one source |
| Five AICompanies · also on Start-ups | Built software to develop and test self-driving car systems; bought by the German engineering group Bosch in 2022. acquiredWhy it is here: reason: builds its own AV simulation tool using Gaussian scene reconstruction and diffusion-based AI; Bosch subsidiary in CambridgeKey facts and news (1)News
Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked. | Cambridge (CB1 2JD) | Companies House · techxplore.com/news/2022-04-germany-bosch-britis · tech.eu/2022/04/12/bosch-goes-for-a-drive-shifts · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. | verified |
| GAIA-1Chips, models and products | Wayve's first generative world model, which makes realistic driving video from video, text and action inputs to train and test self-driving systems. released (technical report)Key facts Previewed June 2023; technical report published 3 Oct 2023 (paper dated 29 Sep 2023, arXiv 2309.17080). Figures (3 Oct 2023): 9-billion-parameter model; trained on approximately 4,700 hours of Wayve UK driving data. Access: research only. Version history: GAIA-1 (2023) → GAIA-2 (26 Mar 2025) → GAIA-3 (2 Dec 2025).Made by Wayve · 2023-10-03Versions GAIA-1 (2023) → GAIA-2 (26 Mar 2025) → GAIA-3 (2 Dec 2025)Read the paper | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/press/wayve-releases-gaia-1-technical-r · wayve.ai/labs/ | lab's own pages |
| GAIA-2Chips, models and products | Wayve's second world model, which generates controllable multi-camera driving video, including rare risky scenarios. released (technical report)Key facts Announced 26 Mar 2025 with technical report (arXiv 2503.20523). Data from the UK, US and Germany. Uses latent diffusion, unlike GAIA-1's autoregressive transformer. Research only.Made by Wayve · 2025-03-26Read the paper | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/thinking/gaia-2/ · wayve.ai/labs/ | lab's own pages |
| GAIA-3Chips, models and products | Wayve's third world model, which generates realistic, controllable driving scenes for offline safety testing. released (research)Key facts Published 2 Dec 2025. Figures (2 Dec 2025): 15-billion-parameter latent diffusion world model; roughly ten times more data than GAIA-2; data from 9 countries on 3 continents.Made by Wayve · 2025-12-02 | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/thinking/gaia-3/ · wayve.ai/labs/ | lab's own pages |
| LA-PoseChips, models and products | A Wayve model that learns vehicle motion from unlabelled driving video to estimate a camera's 3D position. released (paper)Key facts Published 5 May 2026. Figures: trained on 10.2 million unlabelled driving clips; over 10% higher pose accuracy than leading feed-forward methods.Made by Wayve · 2026-05-05 | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/thinking/la-pose/ · wayve.ai/labs/ | lab's own pages |
| Learning to Drive in a Day (deep reinforcement learning on a car)Chips, models and products | Wayve's early research paper in which a real car learned to follow a lane by reinforcement learning. released (paper)Key facts Paper dated 11 Sep 2018 (arXiv 1807.00412, linked from Wayve Labs). Wayve lists it as the first deep reinforcement learning on an autonomous vehicle.Made by Wayve · 2018-09-11 | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/labs/ | one source |
| LINGO-1Chips, models and products | A Wayve model that comments on driving scenes in plain language and answers questions about its driving decisions. released (research model)Key facts Launched 14 Sep 2023 as an open-loop driving commentator. Related benchmark paper: LingoQA (21 Dec 2023). Succeeded by LINGO-2 (17 Apr 2024).Made by Wayve · 2023-09-14 | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/press/introducing_lingo1/ · wayve.ai/press/introducing-lingo-2/ | lab's own pages |
| LINGO-2Chips, models and products | A Wayve driving model that both drives and gives a running commentary explaining its choices. released (tested on public roads)Key facts Announced 17 Apr 2024; tested in Wayve's neural simulator Ghost Gym and on public roads. No performance figures published on the release page. Predecessor: LINGO-1 (Sep 2023).Made by Wayve · 2024-04-17 | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/press/introducing-lingo-2/ · wayve.ai/press/category/press-release/page/4/ | lab's own pages |
| OxaCompanies · also on Start-ups | Makes self-driving software for industrial vehicles that move goods at ports, airports, factories and logistics sites.Models and products (2)
Key facts and news (4)
News
Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked. | Oxford Business Park North, Oxford (OX4 2HW) | Companies House · nationalwealthfund.org.uk/news-and-publications/ · hl.co.uk/shares/stock-market-news/company--news/ · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/news/the-uk-has-significant-opportun | verified |
| Oxa DriverChips, models and products | Oxa's self-driving software for industrial vehicles such as port and logistics trucks, covering perception, reasoning and vehicle control. liveKey facts Managed through Oxa Hub cloud services (remote assist, task design, API, mapping, digital twins); fine-tuned for each new site with Oxa Foundry data; US deployments in Florida and California cited (16 Sep 2025)Made by Oxa · 2026-10-31 | Oxford Business Park North, Oxford (OX4 2HW) (via Oxa) | oxa.tech/technology/ · oxa.tech/ | lab's own pages |
| Oxa FoundryChips, models and products | Oxa's training and assurance toolchain that generates synthetic scenes and data to train and check its driving software for each new site. liveKey facts Integrates NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models (16 Sep 2025); Oxa says it built its own multimodal search to mine weekly sensor data for training "syllabuses" (28 Oct 2025)Made by Oxa · 2026-10-31 | Oxford Business Park North, Oxford (OX4 2HW) (via Oxa) | oxa.tech/technology/ · oxa.tech/news-and-insights/accelerating-self-dri | lab's own pages |
| PRISM-1Chips, models and products | A Wayve model that rebuilds real driving scenes in 3D over time from camera footage, so they can be re-simulated for testing. released (internal simulation model)Key facts Unveiled 17 Jun 2024, with the WayveScenes101 benchmark dataset released alongside.Made by Wayve · 2024-06-17 | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/press/wayve-unveils-prism-1/ · wayve.ai/press/category/press-release/page/4/ | lab's own pages |
| Rig3RChips, models and products | A Wayve model that builds 3D maps of a scene and tracks the car's movement from several cameras. released (paper)Key facts Blog 15 Oct 2025; NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper (arXiv 2506.02265). No public code stated.Made by Wayve · 2025-10-15 | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/thinking/rig3r/ | one source |
| SimLingoChips, models and products | A Wayve research model that drives from cameras alone and links its language to its driving actions. released (paper)Key facts Paper dated 12 Mar 2025 (arXiv 2503.09594, listed on Wayve Labs).Made by Wayve · 2025-03-12Read the paper | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/labs/ | one source |
| Waymo (London and Oxford engineering hubs)Companies | US self-driving company whose first engineering hubs outside the US are in London and Oxford; it plans driverless taxi rides in London. active; London driverless ride-hailing planned, commercial rides not yet available (Waymo UK FAQ)Key facts London and Oxford named as "first international engineering hubs", teams on large-scale closed-loop simulation (15 Oct 2025); intends driverless rides in London "in 2026" (15 Oct 2025); "further investing in our UK team" on the AI architecture of the Waymo Driver (14 Apr 2026); test vehicles with trained specialists at the wheel driven "across tens of thousands of miles on London roads" (14 Apr 2026); "tens of millions of pounds" invested locally in London vehicle operations and facilities (24 Sep 2026); service to be supported by "hundreds of jobs in the UK" (24 Sep 2026); fleet partner Moove; vehicle partner Jaguar Land Rover; permits under DfT Automated Passenger Services scheme with TfL consentProfile
Labs Round 8 deep profile (31 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: one source (Waymo only). Sources Key facts and news (4)
News
Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked. | London; Oxford | waymo.com/blog/2025/10/hello-london-your-waymo-r · waymo.com/blog/2026/09/visionforlondon/ · techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/london-gets-closer-to- · techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/waymo-plans-to-launch- | one source |
| WayveCompanies · also on Start-ups | Builds self-driving software that learns to drive from data and can be fitted to different makes of car.Profile
Labs Round 7 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: single_source (company pages only; valuation on two company pages). Sources Models and products (13)Version chainsGAIA-1 (2023) → GAIA-2 (26 Mar 2025) → GAIA-3 (2 Dec 2025)
Selected papers (6)
Key facts and news (9)
News
Labs Round 8 (31 Oct 2026), from the researchers' rows; one-source items are marked. | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) | Companies House · wayve.ai/press/series-d/ · uktech.news/ai/wayve-valuation-massive-series-d- · wayve.ai/press/series-c/ · wayve.ai/press/ | verified |
| Wayve AI DriverChips, models and products | Wayve's AI driving software for carmakers, from driver assistance up to full self-driving, without HD maps. released (product; rides in London with Uber)Key facts Product page (read 30 Oct 2026): levels L1 (Wayve AI Sense), L2 (AI Driver Assist), L3 (AI Driver CoPilot), L4 (AI Driver); Uber rides "powered by Wayve" "Now available in London"; Mercedes-Benz "definitive production agreement" (deal already held as DEAL-LAB-006); first launches planned in Europe, US and Japan. No launch dates on the page.Made by Wayve | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/product/wayve-ai-driver/ · wayve.ai/labs/ | lab's own pages |
| WayveScenes101Chips, models and products | A public set of 101 recorded driving scenes for testing models that render scenes from new viewpoints. released (open dataset, non-commercial)Key facts Released with PRISM-1 on 17 Jun 2024. Figures: 101 scenarios of 20 seconds each; 101,000 images from five cameras; recorded in the US and UK. Licence: non-commercial research only; download via GitHub.Made by Wayve · 2024-06-17 | 230-238 York Way, London (N7 9AG) (via Wayve) | wayve.ai/labs/wayvescenes101/ · wayve.ai/press/wayve-unveils-prism-1/ | lab's own pages |