In a move that was three years in the making, on Thursday Rivian revealed that it has been developing an advanced, self-improving, end-to-end artificial intelligence system for its autonomy platform that can be scaled from first-generation Rivian R1 products to the R2 and R3 models of tomorrow, and beyond.

“Today was an incredibly exciting day for us. It was the result of years of time to come together, working on developing hardware platforms, our perception platform, building a large foundation model to control how the vehicles are operated,” Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe told Newsweek .

The development was done in stealth and not leaked ahead of a scheduled press conference, meaning Thursday was the first time the public heard about Rivian’s plans for point-to-point, hands-free driving

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