--- title: AI agents are coming to Rivian's cars | daily.dev description: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said at TechCrunch Disrupt that the company plans to let third-party AI agents, like those from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Meta, run on its... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agents-are-coming-to-rivian-s-cars-1esxjskql twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI agents are coming to Rivian's cars | daily.dev og:description: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said at TechCrunch Disrupt that the company plans to let third-party AI agents, like those from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Meta, run on its... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agents-are-coming-to-rivian-s-cars-1esxjskql og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1EsXJSkQL.png og:image:alt: AI agents are coming to Rivian's cars og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI agents are coming to Rivian's cars **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said at TechCrunch Disrupt that the company plans to let third-party AI agents, like those from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Meta, run on its vehicles in the future. Rivian already uses an in-house agentic framework that routes voice commands to either a local on-device model or cloud models depending on complexity, and as of May it could access external apps like Google Calendar. Scaringe emphasized that vehicle-level safety controls (braking, steering) will never be handed to an agent, and that integrating frontier AI products will require significant coordination with AI labs. More details are expected at Rivian's December 'AI & Autonomy Day' event. Tesla has already added Grok chatbot integration to its cars. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Will Rivian let AI agents control vehicle functions like braking or steering? No, Rivian's CEO RJ Scaringe stated that vehicle-level controls such as braking and steering will never be handed to an AI agent. Safety-critical systems are kept separate from the agentic framework, which instead handles tasks like climate control, seat warmers, news summaries, and calendar access. Any future integration with frontier AI agents would extend conversational and contextual features rather than driving controls. _Developers tracking how agentic AI gets scoped for safety-critical systems can follow this on daily.dev._ ### How does Rivian's in-car AI assistant decide whether to use a local or cloud model? Rivian's in-house agentic framework acts like a traffic light, routing each request to a local model running on the vehicle's edge hardware for simple commands, or escalating to cloud-based models for more complex questions, with multiple cloud models available depending on the task. As of May, the assistant could already access external apps such as Google Calendar. _Those weighing edge versus cloud model routing in their own agentic apps can find similar design discussions on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is betting on EVs, robots, and autonomy all at once — he’ll explain why at Disrupt 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/rivian-ceo-rj-scaringe-is-betting-on-evs-robots-and-autonomy-all-at-once-he-ll-explain-why-at-di-kmtzcm2lg) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Rivian’s software chief thinks you don’t need CarPlay or buttons](https://daily.dev/posts/rivian-s-software-chief-thinks-you-don-t-need-carplay-or-buttons-stoslzva2) · The Verge · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic), [#agentic-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/agentic-ai), [#automotive](https://daily.dev/tags/automotive) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agents-are-coming-to-rivian-s-cars-1esxjskql) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"AI agents are coming to Rivian's cars","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agents-are-coming-to-rivian-s-cars-1esxjskql","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agents-are-coming-to-rivian-s-cars-1esxjskql"},"datePublished":"2026-10-15T15:07:28.374Z","dateModified":"2026-10-15T17:51:13.672Z","description":"Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said at TechCrunch Disrupt that the company plans to let third-party AI agents, like those from Anthropic, OpenAI, or Meta, run on its...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/90aeef2d890a5efa1799c6aada228372?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/90aeef2d890a5efa1799c6aada228372?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"TechCrunch","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TechCrunch","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tc","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agents-are-coming-to-rivian-s-cars-1esxjskql","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"tech-news,anthropic,agentic-ai,automotive","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TechCrunch","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"AI agents are coming to Rivian's cars"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agents-are-coming-to-rivian-s-cars-1esxjskql#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Will Rivian let AI agents control vehicle functions like braking or steering?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"No, Rivian's CEO RJ Scaringe stated that vehicle-level controls such as braking and steering will never be handed to an AI agent. 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