Nexar, a real-world intelligence platform focused on Physical AI, and Nauto, an AI-powered vehicle safety and fleet intelligence company, have announced a definitive agreement to merge. The transaction brings together two major players in driving intelligence, combining their datasets, AI models, and enterprise customer networks to create a unified platform for understanding how the physical world behaves at scale.
The combined company aims to become a foundational intelligence layer for Physical AI, enabling organizations to analyze, predict, and respond to real-world driving conditions using large-scale, anonymized data.
The merger brings together complementary technologies that capture and interpret real-world driving behavior. Nexar contributes large-scale global driving data and real-world intelligence systems, while Nauto provides AI-powered safety analytics and fleet risk intelligence.
Together, the companies aim to build an independent intelligence infrastructure layer that reflects how physical environments actually behave, rather than relying solely on simulations or isolated datasets.
The combined platform will leverage more than 300 million miles of driving data collected every month across over 50 countries. This builds on a historical dataset exceeding 10 billion miles of driving intelligence.
This scale enables the creation of AI models capable of detecting edge cases, predicting incidents, and improving decision-making across autonomous systems, transportation networks, and fleet operations.
The merged platform is designed to serve multiple industries that rely on real-world mobility intelligence, including:
By consolidating real-world data and AI models, the platform aims to help organizations move from reactive analysis to predictive and preventive decision-making.
A key aspect of the combined platform is its emphasis on privacy-preserving intelligence. Data will be anonymized and de-identified to ensure compliance with privacy standards while maintaining analytical utility.
The companies also emphasize that the platform will remain independent from vehicle manufacturers and ecosystem players, positioning it as a neutral intelligence layer for Physical AI applications.
Under the agreement, Nexar CEO Zach Greenberger will lead the combined company, while Nauto founder and CEO Stefan Heck will serve as Chairman of the Board.
Leadership emphasized that the merger creates a system capable of providing organizations with real-time awareness, historical learning, and predictive intelligence from a unified data foundation.
The combined platform is positioned as a shift from simulation-based AI development to real-world intelligence systems grounded in actual driving behavior. This enables organizations to ask more precise questions about physical environments and act on validated insights.
The companies highlight that the integration of their systems will support safer, more efficient, and more predictive decision-making across mobility ecosystems.
The merger between Nexar and Nauto marks a significant step in the evolution of Physical AI, combining large-scale driving intelligence with AI-powered safety systems. By unifying real-world data and predictive analytics, the new platform aims to become a foundational layer for understanding, anticipating, and improving how the physical world operates.
Nexar operates one of the world's largest independent real-world driving networks, capturing more than 100 million miles of real-world driving every month across 94% of US roads and more than 50 countries. Its data and models power safety, intelligence, and verification tools for automakers, autonomous vehicle developers, insurers, and government infrastructure clients. Nexar's BADAS is the industry's leading incident prediction model, ranked first across all major real-world driving benchmarks. nexar-ai.com
Nauto develops AI-powered safety and risk technology for enterprise fleets, vehicle manufacturers, and insurance companies, helping them prevent collisions and improve driver performance before incidents occur. Its real-time safety platform consolidates driver behavior, fleet risk, road context and maneuvers and core telematics into a single system, built on more than six billion miles of commercial driving data. More than 1,000 fleets worldwide depend on Nauto to prevent risks before they turn into collisions and loss. nauto.com
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