Porsche leads shared AV data flywheel across Volkswagen Group brands

At NVIDIA GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026, Porsche, Volkswagen Group brands and CARIAD announced a shared data flywheel for autonomous-vehicle development with Voxel51, NVIDIA and Microsoft. The partners expect to cut physical test drives by up to 90% and AI regression test cycles by up to 85%.

• Volkswagen's fleet generates data equal to 11,000 average drivers per day
• Physical test drives expected to drop by up to 90%
• AI regression test cycles to shorten by up to 85%
• Reconstruction runs on Azure with NVIDIA Cosmos and Omniverse NuRec