A car you can chat with and that gets you? Volvo dishes on AI-wielding EX60. (arstechnica.com)

Volvo is set to unveil its new EX60 SUV, an electric vehicle built on an innovative EV-only platform named HuginCore. This cutting-edge platform boasts advanced features such as a cell-to-body battery pack, weight-saving castings, and exceptional electronic architecture powered by computers that can execute over 250 trillion operations per second. Drawing inspiration from Norse mythology, HuginCore is designed to gather and analyze data from various sensors, enabling the vehicle to understand and anticipate its environment, akin to the mythical raven Hugin tasked with collecting knowledge for Odin. This announcement is significant for the AI/ML community as it showcases Volvo's transition into a tech-focused automotive company that takes control of its hardware and software stacks. The EX60 represents a second-generation software-defined platform, integrating lessons learned from previous models like the EX90, thereby enhancing the user experience through its sophisticated data processing capabilities. Importantly, existing Volvo owners can rest assured that their current vehicles will remain supported, despite the shift towards the new SPA3 architecture and HuginCore platform.