Turing autonomous‑driving startup secures AMD Ventures investment and adopts AMD AI accelerators

Japanese autonomous‑driving startup Turing Inc. announced that AMD Ventures has become an investor and that the company will integrate AMD’s AI accelerator GPUs into its autonomous‑vehicle platform. The move is designed to diversify Turing’s hardware supply away from Nvidia and to lower the cost of AI training and inference, which the firm says now accounts for about 10% of its AI workload.

Turing’s CFO Masato Morishima said the partnership will help improve latency‑critical perception and decision‑making workloads in robotaxi systems, with a target to roll out commercial services by 2028. The startup, valued at roughly $600 million after a $79 million Series A extension, aims to compete with other Japanese efforts such as the Nissan‑Wayve‑Uber pilot in Tokyo. The collaboration also brings capital support alongside technical expertise from AMD, which is based in Santa Clara, California.