Japanese self-driving startup Turing has closed a $79 million Series A funding round.
This funding round, revealed on July 6, combined with the $95 million the vendor raised in November 2025, brings the vendor’s total fundraising to $174 million.
Among the investors are AMD Ventures, Mitsubishi Corporation and MUFG Bank. The presence of AMD Ventures, the venture capital arm of chipmaker AMD, is notable as the new funding coincides with the development that Turing is now using AMD’s AI accelerators in its systems, reducing its reliance on Nvidia chips.
Tokyo-based Turing is developing an autonomous driving system in a single unified model that it hopes to be in use by 2028, in consumer vehicles offered for sale by automakers and in robotaxis, too.
Masato Morishima, Turing’s CFO, spoke to Bloomberg to mark the funding round, revealing that broadly 10% of the company’s AI training needs were now being powered by AMD GPUs.
In addition to diversifying Turing’s supply chain, the move is expected to reduce costs (AMD GPUs are generally cheaper than Nvidia GPUs), a plus in the arena of autonomous vehicle tech, which is expensive to develop.
The vendor is not alone in its quest to deliver autonomous driving in the Japanese market, with U.K.-based AI vendor Wayve already well advanced in its efforts to launch a pilot robotaxi service in Tokyo in tandem with automaker Nissan and Uber by the end of the year.
Wayve also has the advantage of being significantly better funded, with AMD also among its backers.
Turing said it will use the latest funding to boost its computing infrastructure and expand its commercial and R&D operations.
CEO Issei Yamamoto said in a statement: “Working alongside our partners in computing infrastructure and data centers, we will push our technology development further and do everything we can to bring fully autonomous driving developed in Japan to the world.”
