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What happens when an AI driver can imagine what comes next?That was the focus of our latest Signal, where Dr. Wei Zhan, ...
10/15/2026

What happens when an AI driver can imagine what comes next?

That was the focus of our latest Signal, where Dr. Wei Zhan, Co-Director of Berkeley DeepDrive and the BAIR Center for Humanoid Intelligence and Chief Scientist at Applied Intuition, joined us to explore what he calls AV 3.0: training end-to-end in closed loop, where a model learns from the consequences of its own decisions rather than only from human demonstration.

Closed-loop learning needs a world to practice in, which is where simulation and world models come in. We dug into world-action models, which learn to understand the world and act in it together, and why the ability to predict what happens next matters for a driver. We also talked about what makes a simulator good enough to learn in, what changes when models can learn from raw video at scale, and what it takes to trust a world model before training on it.

We also looked beyond the road, at what autonomy's lessons could mean for physical AI more broadly.

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Kodiak AI in Mountain View for the discussion.

Missed this one? Stay tuned. More Signal conversations are on the way.

Kodiak and Charger Logistics have launched autonomous trucking between Dallas and Laredo, the busiest freight border cro...
10/08/2026

Kodiak and Charger Logistics have launched autonomous trucking between Dallas and Laredo, the busiest freight border crossing in the U.S., hauling refrigerated and dry freight for consumer packaged goods and food and beverage shippers. A safety driver is behind the wheel today, with driverless planned once our safety case is complete.

“Charger came to us knowing what they wanted from autonomy and what they need to see before scaling it,” said Don Burnette, our founder and CEO. “That clarity makes for a strong collaboration.” Now we’re hauling freight on a brand new route.

10/07/2026

We’re on track to launch long-haul driverless trucks on the highway by EOY. Our Autonomy Readiness Measure (ARM) tracks how much of our safety case is complete. ARM hit 96% in September, up from 93% in August, our fastest month yet. See you on the highways real soon.

It’s been a year since we went public. And what a year it’s been. Over the past 12 months, we:→ Scaled to 35 driverless ...
09/30/2026

It’s been a year since we went public. And what a year it’s been.

Over the past 12 months, we:

→ Scaled to 35 driverless trucks running day and night for Atlas Energy Solutions in the Permian Basin…zero humans in the cab
→ Started hauling triple trailers
→ Named IKEA as our driverless launch partner
→ Crossed 40,000+ cumulative hours and 3.5M+ autonomous miles
→ Designated the Dallas-Houston I-45 corridor as our first long-haul driverless launch lane, with our Autonomy Readiness Measure at 93% and climbing
→ Earned a California DMV permit for autonomous truck testing
→ Partnered with the United States Marine Corps on the ROUGE-Fires program

And we are just getting started. Year one is done. The highway is next.

This is Kodiak. AI for the long haul.

09/30/2026

For four years, Kodiak and IKEA have been assembling the perfect partnership for driverless freight. 1,300 loads, 750,000+ miles, and a nearly perfect on-time record.

Now we're ready to put together everything we’ve learned. Later this year, IKEA becomes Kodiak's first driverless launch partner, with service starting on the same stretch of I-45 we've tested safely for four years. It's a proud moment, years in the making.

We're finalizing the safety case, mapping out the launch details, and practicing how to pronounce "FÖRARLÖS LASTBIL." (That's "driverless truck" in Swedish.) Stay tuned. 🇸🇪

Every hour matters when the freight is fresh. Kodiak and DTL Transport just completed autonomous long-haul deliveries in...
09/25/2026

Every hour matters when the freight is fresh. Kodiak and DTL Transport just completed autonomous long-haul deliveries in California, hauling perishable grocery freight from Fresno to Los Angeles under Kodiak's new heavy-duty testing permit from the California DMV.

DTL is a Fresno-based carrier serving several of the nation's largest grocers. The route runs approximately 225 miles from Fresno to a distribution center in Los Angeles, mostly on CA-99 and I-5.

The permit is the first step in the DMV's phased approach, which moves from driver-in testing to driver-out testing and ultimately to driver-out deployment. A safety driver remains behind the wheel during this initial work.

Together, the companies will study how autonomy may benefit transit times, shipping costs, and produce shelf life, while DTL explores how it can add capacity when demand exceeds its available fleet.

09/08/2026

So what’s an ARM? It’s our Autonomy Readiness Measure: the metric we use to judge just how ready the Kodiak driver is for driverless highway operations. As we approach safety case completion, it’s going up faster and faster every month, putting us on track for our highway debut in December.

That measure hit 93% at the end of August, up from 91% in July, 86% in April, and 84% back in February. The remaining work to be done is concentrated on final engineering verification and validation. And our long-haul safety case builds on the work we’ve already done in the Permian Basin, where 35 driverless trucks are running commercially with no one in the cab as of the end of Q2.

Read more in the press release - https://kodiak.ai/news/driverless-long-haul-on-track-arm-93

09/01/2026

Atlas Energy Solutions has moved one million tons of sand with trucks powered by the Kodiak Driver.

Poured into Olympic swimming pools, it would fill 225 of them.

Atlas moved it a load at a time across the Permian Basin, on unstructured roads and changing routes, in trucks it owns and operates with no one in the cab.

Congratulations to the Atlas team. And we’re just getting started.

08/20/2026

When a driverless truck brakes while hauling triple trailers, it takes about a second and a half for that brake pressure to reach the rearmost trailer. The Kodiak Driver must account for the lag every time it slows down.

Loaded, the “triples” configuration stretches 50 meters from front bumper to back, more than half a football field, and weighs 275,000 pounds. It also isn't really three trailers. Two dollies sit between them, each with its own articulation, which means five separate pieces moving behind the cab.

As of August 12, Kodiak Driver-powered trucks have carried more than 1,400 triples loads across the Permian Basin and delivered over 140,000 tons of sand.

David Silver, who leads autonomy product development at Kodiak, details what changed across perception, planning, controls, systems and routing to make triples a reality today.

Full story here: https://kodiak.ai/news/driverless-triple-trailers-permian-basin

08/19/2026

Kodiak's AI-powered ground autonomy is hauling commercial freight today, with no one in the cab.

Kodiak Driver-powered trucks have delivered more than 20,000 loads across more than 40,000 hours of paid driverless operations. The 35 trucks in service are owned and operated by our customer, running the Permian Basin's unstructured roads and dynamic routes with load configurations that change from one run to the next.

Driverless today.

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