Wayve Timeline

Events

• 2026-10-09 - Demonstration - Wayve demonstrates supervised AI driving across two Stellantis platforms - Both vehicles progressed from integration to real-world road testing in less than four weeks. The demonstration builds on an earlier Jeep Grand Cherokee integration under the May 2026 partnership. A North American launch of supervised highway and urban… - source: media.stellantis.com
• 2026-10-01 - Contract Award - Nissan selects Valeo as Tier-1 for next-generation ProPILOT with Wayve AI Driver - Valeo will act as lead system integrator, combining its sensor portfolio and ADAS Domain Controller with Wayve’s driving software. Valeo, Nissan and Wayve will validate and industrialise the solution for mass-production vehicles. - source: valeo.com
• 2026-09-16 - Executive Hire - Wayve appoints Elisa de Martel as chief financial officer - De Martel was Waymo’s chief financial officer from 2022 to January 2026, a period in which the company began commercial operations in several cities and raised a $5.6 billion Series C led by its parent. Outgoing Wayve chief financial officer Max Warburton… - source: techcrunch.com
• 2026-09-03 - Deployment - Wayve and Uber launch supervised autonomous rides in London - Passengers can accept a Wayve match or switch to a conventional ride before pickup, with no extra charge. A TfL-licensed private-hire driver supervises each trip; the initial operating area excludes London airports. The Uber-designed cabin screens support 64… - source: investor.uber.com
• 2026-08-18 - Executive Hire - Wayve Labs hires Alex Toshev to lead a general robotics team - Toshev is the former Apple and Google research leader and joins the frontier research unit Wayve launched in June 2026. He will lead a new general robotics team inside Wayve Labs building a foundation intelligence layer for physical systems beyond… - source: wayve.ai
• 2026-08-12 - Partnership - Uber appoints Hinomaru Kotsu to operate planned Tokyo robotaxi pilot - Hinomaru will manage the depot, maintenance, charging, inspection and fleet uptime. The pilot will use Nissan LEAF vehicles equipped with the Wayve AI Driver and offered through Uber’s platform. The operating appointment advances the earlier… - source: businesswire.com
• 2026-08-11 - Deployment - Wayve reports faster autonomy triage with Foxglove - After centralizing vehicle data in Foxglove, Wayve reduced event triage from hours or days to minutes or seconds, making root-cause investigation materially faster. Nearly 40% of Wayve’s engineering team uses Foxglove in daily workflows, with the platform… - source: foxglove.dev
• 2026-08-03 - Research Publication - Wayve introduces GAIA-4 for closed-loop autonomous-driving simulation - GAIA-4 reconstructs logged road scenes directly from recorded sensor data without HD maps, hand-built scene graphs or a separate annotation stack. Its world-on-rails mode changes the ego vehicle trajectory while holding other road users to their logged… - source: wayve.ai
• 2026-06-17 - Partnership - Stellantis, Wayve and Uber plan L4 robotaxi service - Stellantis contributes an L4-ready vehicle platform. Wayve contributes the AI Driver. Uber contributes its mobility network. - source: globenewswire.com
• 2026-05-29 - Org Change - Wayve launches Wayve Labs to expand embodied-intelligence research beyond self-driving - Wayve launched Wayve Labs as a new AI research unit focused on embodied intelligence beyond autonomous driving. The lab is led by Chief Scientist Jamie Shotton and is intended to explore AI systems that understand and act in the physical world. The… - source: businessinsider.com
• 2026-03-10 - Partnership - Qualcomm and Wayve pre-integrate AI Driver with Snapdragon Ride - Wayve AI Driver is being pre-integrated with Snapdragon Ride and Active Safety. The combined stack targets automaker ADAS and automated-driving programmes. - source: qualcomm.com
• 2026-02-25 - Funding - Wayve raises $1.2B to scale end-to-end autonomous driving systems - Eclipse, Balderton and SoftBank led the Series D; Microsoft, NVIDIA, Uber, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Stellantis also participated. Wayve tied the financing to commercial robotaxi trials in 2026 and supervised autonomy software in consumer vehicles from 2027.… - source: wayve.ai