Volvo EX60 comes with AI assistant, Gemini
Geely-owned Volvo Cars says the new electric Volvo EX60 is the first Volvo to launch with Gemini, an AI assistant from Google.
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It says customers can have a ‘true natural conversation with the EX60, the company’s most intelligent and technologically advanced car to date’.
The EX60 mid-size SUV is set to be revealed on 21 January, the company says.
“The new EX60 is full of human-centric technology designed to enhance your life behind the wheel,” says Anders Bell, Chief Engineering and Technology Officer at Volvo Cars. “HuginCore, our state-of-the-art system of hardware and software, combines our in-house developed technology with the best services and technologies from tech leaders such as Google, NVIDIA and Qualcomm Technologies. It creates discreet yet cutting-edge tech that works quietly in the background to support you.”
Volvo says Gemini makes every drive more helpful by providing hands-free control ‘for everything that matters on the road’.
It is described as highly personalised, deeply integrated with the car and allows drivers to manage complex tasks through natural and multi-turn conversation without having to remember specific commands.
Drivers, Volvo maintains, can stay focused on the drive, reducing the need to look at the central display.
For example, Volvo says drivers can ask Gemini to find a hotel booking address in their email, check if a recently bought item fits in their EX60 trunk or brainstorm ideas for an upcoming road trip.
This integration, it sats, makes the EX60 intuitive to use and builds on Volvo Cars and Google working together for nearly a decade.
The EX60 contains the latest iteration of Hugin Core, the Volvo Cars core system named after the bird in Norse mythology that empowers the car to think, process and act.
This is the first time that Volvo Cars names its core system, which encompasses the in-house developed electrical architecture, core computer, zone controllers and software inside the EX60 – a true software-defined car, the company says.
The next-generation Snapdragon Cockpit Platform from Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is an advanced system-on-a-chip (SoC) that provides the EX60 with the ‘highest level of processing power found inside a Volvo car to date’.
At the centre of the EX60 lies the powerful NVIDIA DRIVE platform, featuring accelerated computing powered by the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin system-on-a-chip, which runs on the safety-certified DriveOS operating system.
As a result of its processing power set-up, Volvo maintains that the EX60 offers ‘the most responsive user experience in any Volvo car to date, helping customers keep their focus on where it needs to be – on the road. In this seamless and no-lag infotainment system, screens respond quickly, maps load instantly, voice assistants understand passengers better, and everything feels smooth’.
Moreover, Volvo says HuginCore helps to take the EX60 to new levels of safety, as it constantly reads and assesses the world around the car through its wide array of sensors.
This deeper awareness allows the EX60 to support drivers in real time. It helps them anticipate danger sooner, avoid potential risks, and react calmly and confidently when the unexpected happens. It is designed to make every journey safer, more reassuring, and less stressful, enabling highly advanced driver assistance features.
Because the EX60 is capable of over 250 trillion operations per second, it does not just process information but learns with every mile, Volvo says. The car will also draw on experiences from other Volvo cars globally, including accidents and near-misses, to keep improving over time.
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