Rivian Plans Third-Party AI Agents in EVs, Extending Assistant Rolled Out Weeks Ago
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Updated · TechCrunch · Oct 15
Rivian Plans Third-Party AI Agents in EVs, Extending Assistant Rolled Out Weeks Ago
3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Oct 15
Summary
Rivian’s next AI step is to let its EVs run outside agents such as Anthropic’s tools, CEO RJ Scaringe said, though he gave no launch date and pointed to a December AI & Autonomy Day for more detail.
The move builds on Rivian’s newly launched in-car voice assistant and an in-house agentic framework that routes requests to local or cloud models depending on complexity.
As of May, the system could already reach external apps like Google Calendar; Scaringe said future integrations could pull context from conversations users had with assistants on other devices.
Safety remains a hard limit: Rivian said agents will not control braking, steering or other vehicle-level functions, requiring extensive coordination with AI labs before broader deployment.
The plan would deepen Rivian’s software-first strategy—built largely outside Apple CarPlay and Android Auto—and follows Tesla’s addition of Grok and Grok Bot to its vehicles earlier this year.