Wayve and Mercedes-Benz signed a production deal to put the AI Driver on MB.OS

Wayve and Mercedes-Benz have signed a definitive production agreement to integrate the Wayve AI Driver into future Mercedes-Benz vehicles, Wayve said on September 22, describing the target as urban and highway point-to-point driving assistance for customers “starting in the next two years.”

The detail that distinguishes it from a technology partnership is where the software runs. Wayve said the two companies had integrated the AI Driver into the Mercedes-Benz production system architecture “using their hardware, MB.OS operating system, and map interfaces,” and described that work as setting the foundation for mass production development. The agreement follows Mercedes-Benz’s investment in Wayve’s Series D round earlier this year and a multi-year technical partnership.

Jörg Burzer, chief technology officer at Mercedes-Benz, said the partnership marked the first integration of the Wayve AI Driver in the premium segment. Alex Kendall, Wayve’s co-founder and chief executive, said the pace of the joint development work reflected technical alignment between the teams.

Wayve describes the AI Driver as an end-to-end system that learns to drive without high-definition maps, trained on NVIDIA infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure, and says the approach generalizes to new cities without geofences or city-specific retraining.

Mercedes-Benz published no release of its own. Its media site carried no reference to the agreement on the day it was announced. Neither does any compelled document: the carmaker’s ad hoc and capital-market disclosure registers carry nothing relating to the agreement, and Wayve is privately held, with no such register on its side. No statement of the agreement’s financial terms exists in either company’s obligatory filings.