Stellantis has acquired aiMotive in a bid to expand its development of autonomous driving technology.

The artificial intelligence and autonomous driving software startup will operate as a subsidiary of Stellantis.

Stellantis’ software teams are developing three all-new technology platforms: STLA Brain, STLA SmartCockpit and STLA AutoDrive. They will be deployed at scale across the four STLA vehicle platforms from 2024.

The acquisition enhances Stellantis’ artificial intelligence and autonomous driving core technology, expands its global talent pool, and boosts the mid-term development of the all-new STLA AutoDrive platform.  

“Acquiring aiMotive’s world-class artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology is an important contribution to becoming a sustainable mobility tech company,” said Yves Bonnefont, Stellantis chief software officer. “aiMotive’s class-leading expertise and startup spirit will accelerate our journey to deliver our Dare Forward 2030 goals.”

aiMotive’s technology product portfolio is focused on four key areas within artificial intelligence and autonomous driving:

• aiDrive: Embedded software stack for autonomous driving
• aiData: Artificial intelligence operations and data tooling
• aiWare: Expertise and intellectual property for silicon microchips
• aiSim: Software simulation for development of autonomous driving

The company is based in Budapest, Hungary, with offices in Germany, the United States and Japan, with more than 200 employees worldwide, including engineers with advanced artificial intelligence and autonomous driving expertise.

Founder László Kishonti will remain as CEO. It will continue selling three areas of its current technology product portfolio, including aiData, aiSim and aiWare, to other partners.

The aiMotive team will be fully part of the Stellantis autonomous driving and artificial intelligence teams.