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Japan's Self-Driving Startup Turing Wins AMD Backing, Adopts Its GPUs

July 5, 2026 at 21:25 EDT

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Japanese self-driving startup Turing Inc. has secured an investment from AMD Ventures and begun adopting AMD's GPUs for its AI development, according to reports on July 6, 2026. The company, previously reliant on Nvidia hardware, is aiming to diversify its supply and cut costs.

July 6, 2026 · Turing Inc.

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Japan's self-driving startup takes an investment from AMD Ventures and shifts part of its AI training onto AMD GPUs — a bet on diversifying compute supply and cutting costs.

~10%

of AI training demand already moved to AMD hardware

Nvidia H100 units in the existing "Gaggle Cluster" (since Sept 2024)

2021

founded in Ota, Tokyo — building an End-to-End generative-AI driving system

Where AI training runs now — the shift

~90%

Nvidia (H100)

~10%

AMD (new)

Each block ≈ 10% of training demand — a first, deliberate step away from a single supplier.

Why the move

Diversify compute supply chain
Cut training and inference costs
Reduce reliance on a single vendor

Still undisclosed

Investment amount
AMD GPU model & quantity
Performance benchmarks vs Nvidia

Part of a wider trend

Securing and diversifying compute has become a core challenge for AI-driving firms.

AMD Ventures is spreading its accelerators across the AI ecosystem — echoing UK's Wayve (backed by AMD, Qualcomm, Arm) and Japan's GMO Internet (~¥3.2B for GPU cloud). Turing meanwhile advances VLA-based E2E development, "Tokyo 30" trials, and large driving-dataset releases with Subaru and DENSO.

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