Wayve

A London end-to-end autonomous-driving company that calls its own work embodied AI and now runs robotaxis with Uber.

Wayve was founded in Cambridge in 2017 by Cambridge machine-learning PhD student Alex Kendall, now CEO, and Amar Shah, and is now headquartered in London. It follows an end-to-end approach it calls AV2.0: a single neural network outputs driving actions directly from camera footage, without relying on high-definition maps or hand-written rules, and the company describes its own work as embodied AI. Notable models include LINGO-2, which explains its driving decisions in language as it drives, and the GAIA family of driving-video world models. In May 2024 it closed a $1.05 billion Series C led by SoftBank; in February 2026 it closed a $1.2 billion Series D at an $8.6 billion post-money valuation, with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Uber, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Stellantis among the investors. On September 3, 2026, it launched a safety-driver-monitored robotaxi service with Uber in London.

ExampleWhile driving, LINGO-2 narrates its reasoning in real time, saying things like “there's a pedestrian crossing ahead, I'm slowing down.”

Also called

Wayve Technologies

Related

GAIA-2 (Wayve) · Autonomous Driving · End-to-End · World Model · Vision-Language-Action Model · Tesla FSD v12

Sources

Wayve - Wikipedia
Wayve raises $1.2B at $8.6B valuation to scale embodied AI for autonomous driving（Tech.eu）
Wayve and Uber Launch First-Ever Autonomous Rides in the UK（Wayve）

As of

2026-09