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Pivoting toward autonomous vehicle marketplace model
For most of its life, Uber has been a marketplace for human drivers with their own cars. On May 6, 2026, the company laid out the clearest version yet of a different model: a marketplace for robotaxis it neither owns nor operates.
Updated May 31
Assembling a portfolio of autonomous vehicle partners while investing directly in fleet ownership
Uber sold its self-driving car unit in 2020 after burning billions and killing a pedestrian. Now it's spending up to $1.25 billion to do it all over again — this time with Rivian building the cars. The deal commits Uber to purchasing up to 50,000 autonomous R2 sport utility vehicles for deployment across 25 cities by 2031, beginning in San Francisco and Miami in 2028.
Updated May 30
Transitioning to autonomous vehicle marketplace operator with partnerships across two dozen AV companies
Nvidia and Uber announced plans to deploy 100,000 Level 4 autonomous robotaxis across 28 cities on four continents by 2028, using Nvidia's new DRIVE Hyperion 10 platform and Alpamayo, an open-source reasoning model. Five automakers—BYD, Geely, Stellantis, Lucid, and Mercedes-Benz—will manufacture vehicles with Nvidia's hardware pre-installed. Commercial rides begin in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the first half of 2027.
Committed to Trump Accounts contributions
Starting July 4, 2026, the U.S. will deposit $1,000 into a stock market index fund for every American born between 2025 and 2028—accessible at age 18 for education, homebuying, or starting a business. This is the nation's first universal child investment program; over 1 million families enrolled the first week.
Updated May 23
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