Stellantis and Wayve Demonstrate How AI Can Scale Across Vehicle Platforms

TURIN, Italy, Oct. 9, 2026 — Stellantis and Wayve showcased progress in their strategic technology partnership at Wave by Vento 2026, demonstrating how AI-powered driving intelligence can adapt across distinct vehicle platforms while delivering a natural, intuitive, and supervised hands-free driving experience.

During a conversation at the event, Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa and Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall discussed how artificial intelligence is reshaping vehicles, accelerating innovation, and creating new opportunities to make mobility more useful, accessible, and human-centered. Alongside the conversation, Fiat 500e and Maserati Grecale development vehicles demonstrated hands-free door-to-door supervised driving assistant (Level 2++), enabled by the integration of the Wayve AI Driver with STLA AutoDrive. The two development vehicles progressed from integration to real-world road testing in less than four weeks, building on the successful Jeep® Grand Cherokee integration earlier this year and reflecting the adaptability of the technologies and the deepening collaboration between the Stellantis and Wayve engineering teams.

Announced in May 2026, the strategic partnership combines Wayve’s end-to-end AI driving intelligence with Stellantis’ STLA AutoDrive technology platform, automotive engineering expertise, and scalable vehicle architectures. This approach enables a common AI driving foundation to support multiple vehicle platforms while adapting to differences in vehicle geometry, dynamics, and sensor positioning. Hands-free, door-to-door supervised driving assistant, available across highway and urban environments, is targeted to launch in 2028, starting in North America.

Traditional driving assistant systems largely depend on predefined rules and specifically programmed scenarios. Artificial intelligence introduces a different approach, enabling vehicles to interpret complex real-world situations and support decision-making in real time. The Wayve AI Driver uses end-to-end embodied AI technology that learns from real-world experience to understand driving environments and respond appropriately without relying on high-definition maps, hand-coded driving rules, or custom hardware. Integrated with STLA AutoDrive, this intelligence supports Stellantis’ ambition to develop advanced driver assistance systems that feel natural and intuitive, adapt to varying customer expectations, and scale efficiently across brands and markets. As AI continues to evolve, vehicles are progressively transitioning from machines executing a fixed set of programmed instructions into intelligent systems capable of perceiving their surroundings, learning from experience, and responding to complex real-world conditions.

For Stellantis and Wayve, advancing AI is not an end in itself. Its technology’s value lies in improving everyday mobility by reducing driver workload and making travel safer, smoother and more intuitive.

Stellantis and Wayve share a long-term vision in which generalizable AI driving technology can support different levels of vehicle automation and address distinct mobility needs. Level 2++ is designed to bring supervised, hands-free, door-to-door driving to customers in their own vehicles, while L4 technology, combined with Stellantis’ L4-Ready Platforms™ and Wayve’s AI technology, can power driverless mobility services for high-utilization operations. A common, scalable technological foundation can accelerate learning and deployment at scale across vehicles and markets, while each application is engineered and validated according to its specific operating model and safety requirements.

“Artificial intelligence is transforming the vehicle into an intelligent system capable of perceiving, learning, and adapting to complex real-world environments. But, technology matters only when it improves people’s lives,” said Antonio Filosa, CEO of Stellantis. ““Our partnership with Wayve combines advanced AI, worldclass engineering expertise, and scalable vehicle platforms, reinforcing a core principle of our FaSTLAne 2030 strategy: the power of partnerships. By integrating the same core driving intelligence across different vehicles, we are showing how innovation can scale while remaining focused on what customers value most: safety, simplicity, and confidence behind the wheel.”

“We’re building a general-purpose AI Driver that can power any vehicle, anywhere,” said Alex Kendall, cofounder and CEO of Wayve. “Together with Stellantis, we first integrated our technology into a Jeep Grand Cherokee earlier this year. Now, we’ve brought the same core intelligence to the Fiat 500e and Maserati Grecale — three very different vehicles with distinct configurations. This progress shows how embodied AI can become the foundation automakers build on to deliver safe, intelligent, and delightful driving experiences at global scale.”

The Fiat 500e and Maserati Grecale development vehicles showcased at Wave by Vento make the partnership’s progress tangible. By combining Wayve’s adaptable AI technology with Stellantis’ engineering capabilities, industrial scale, and diverse product portfolio, the companies aim to bring advanced driving technology to more customers while preserving the distinct character and experience of each brand.