Beijing, China — April 26, 2026 — ThunderSoft today announced the launch of AquaClaw, an automotive AI agent operating system built on the NVIDIA NemoClaw reference software stack, during the AquaDrive AIOS Super Fusion AI Agent & ThunderSoft 2026 Intelligent Vehicle Product Launch Event. AquaClaw is currently available in early preview.
Designed as the core runtime foundation for multi-agent automotive AI systems, AquaClaw introduces a standardized plug-and-play architecture that enables seamless integration between AI agents and vehicle application scenarios. Engineered for scalable mass production, AquaClaw supports not only real-time interactions, but also stateful AI agents capable of maintaining contextual continuity across multiple driving sessions, delivering persistent and context-aware intelligent experiences for drivers and passengers.
By bridging AI development and deployment, AquaClaw accelerates the transition of advanced AI technologies from pilot projects to production-grade commercialization, laying a foundational platform for the industry’s shift toward AI-defined, agent-driven mobility experiences.
Addressing the Industry Transition Toward AI-Defined Vehicles
AI agents are rapidly emerging as a key driver in the transformation of intelligent vehicles. As one of the most important large-scale deployment scenarios for AI agents, the automotive industry is entering a critical phase of evolution from function-defined vehicles to AI-defined vehicles.
This transition is driving growing demand for next-generation Automotive AI Operating Systems (AIOS) that are secure, efficient, flexible, and production-ready. OEMs also require platforms that can scale across diverse vehicle programs and use cases while reducing development complexity and accelerating time-to-market. AquaClaw was developed to address these evolving industry requirements.
The expanding collaboration between ThunderSoft and NVIDIA reflects a shared strategic vision to tackle these challenges and accelerate the commercialization of automotive AI agents.
Unified AIOS Architecture: Edge AI, Cloud Collaboration, and Safety-by-Design
AquaClaw is built around a unified architecture centered on edge AI, cloud collaboration, and secure controllability, delivering a full-stack automotive AIOS spanning the underlying operating system, AI runtime, and scenario adaptation layers. The platform is designed to support large-scale deployment of agentic AI across diverse automotive platforms.
Leveraging its deep expertise in automotive edge computing, automotive-grade AI operating systems, and lightweight large language models, ThunderSoft provides AquaClaw with a customized Base OS, ontology framework, and intelligent vehicle skills library. These capabilities enable advanced adaptation to complex automotive scenarios while ensuring low-power edge-side operation and compliance with automotive-grade requirements.
NVIDIA contributes its industry-leading AI and agentic software stack, including the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit and NemoClaw — an open-source reference software stack that installs OpenClaw within the sandboxed NVIDIA OpenShell environment and runs open-source models such as NVIDIA Nemotron 3. The collaboration is further strengthened by NVIDIA TensorRT Edge-LLM inference frameworks and the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX in-vehicle computing platform.
By integrating the strengths of both companies, AquaClaw enables safer, compliant, and low-latency execution of AI agents, ensuring responsive and stable in-vehicle performance.
“AI agents are becoming a transformative force reshaping both the automotive ecosystem and user experience,” said Larry Geng, Co-Founder and Executive President of ThunderSoft. “Through our collaboration with NVIDIA, AquaClaw delivers a plug-and-play, full-stack solution for OEMs. Our goal is to help automakers reduce development costs, accelerate mass production, and strengthen their competitive advantage in the global intelligent vehicle market while creating greater commercial and user value.”
“Our collaboration combines the best of both companies’ technologies,” said Rishi Dhall, Vice President of Automotive at NVIDIA. “By integrating ThunderSoft’s deep expertise in automotive system customization with NVIDIA’s advanced AI computing architecture, we are creating a secure, efficient, and scalable pathway for deploying automotive AI agents, enabling truly autonomous and adaptive intelligent mobility experiences for consumers worldwide.”
The collaboration marks another major milestone in advancing the automotive AI ecosystem through complementary technologies and aligned strategic vision. Moving forward, ThunderSoft will continue investing in AquaClaw’s technological innovation and ecosystem development while leveraging NVIDIA technologies to accelerate large-scale production deployment of automotive AI agents globally.
