Rivian 近期推出了一个 AI 助手，让驾驶员和乘客只需与其公司的电动汽车对话即可与公司的电动汽车互动。但该汽车制造商的创始人兼首席执行官 RJ Scaringe 于本周在 TechCrunch Disrupt 活动上表示，未来 Rivian 的汽车将能够运行由 Anthropic 等其他公司开发的 AI 代理。
Rivian recently rolled out an AI assistant that lets drivers and passengers interact with the company’s electric vehicles just by talking to them. But the carmaker’s founder and CEO, RJ Scaringe, said at TechCrunch Disrupt this week that, in the future, Rivian’s cars will be able to run AI agents made by other companies like Anthropic.
“这就是它变得神奇的地方，”Scaringe 在舞台上说道。
“That’s where it becomes magical,” Scaringe said on stage.
Scaringe 没有说明 Rivian 何时会实施这一功能，公司也拒绝提供更多细节，转而指向其计划于 12 月举办的“AI & Autonomy Day”活动。
Scaringe didn’t say when Rivian would implement this, and the company declined to offer more details, pointing instead to the “AI & Autonomy Day” event it’s hosting in December.
但不难想象 Rivian 如何将类似 Claude、OpenAI 的 Dots 或 Meta 的 Muse 助手整合进其软件。该公司自主研发了车内软件，而非依赖 Apple CarPlay 或 Android Auto，并构建了大量自有应用，包括导航功能（尽管已努力整合如 Apple Music 等流行车内应用）。
But it’s not hard to imagine how Rivian might integrate something like Claude, OpenAI’s Dots or Meta’s Muse assistant into its software. The company has developed its in-car software from the ground up, instead of leaning on Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, and built a lot of its own applications, like navigation (though it has worked to integrate popular in-car apps like Apple Music).
Rivian 表示，其已自主研发内置的代理框架，能够理解人在与车辆对话时想要执行的操作，并将其路由至车辆软件的相应部分。大多数情况下，这涉及人们通常预期的操作：例如要求调低温度、启用座椅加热，或总结新闻。
Rivian says it has created its own in-house agentic framework that understands what action a person wants to take when they talk to the vehicle, and routes it to the right part of the car’s software. Most of the time, that involves what you’d expect: asking the car to turn down the temperature, activate the seat warmers, or summarize the news.
“可以把它想象成交通灯。当你向车辆提问时，它会决定使用哪个模型。它可以使用在车辆边缘运行的本地模型，如果问题更复杂，则可上传至云端。即便如此，我们也使用不同的模型来处理，”Scaringe 表示。
“Think of it as like a traffic light. So if you ask the vehicle something, it decides what model it’s going to use. It can use a local model that’s running on the edge and the vehicle. If it’s a more complex question, it can go up to the cloud. And then even for that, we have different models that we use,” Scaringe said.
截至今年 5 月，该代理已能访问 Google Calendar 等外部应用。Scaringe 于 Disrupt 活动上表示，下一步将是加入前沿 AI 公司的产品，但将这些产品整合至车辆中并不容易。
As of May of this year, the agent could access external apps like Google Calendar. And Scaringe said at Disrupt the next step would be to add products from the frontier AI companies, though making them work in the car won’t be easy.
“幕后有许多系统整合工作要做，才能确保这一切正常运行，而且这些工作并不仅限于 Rivian 内部。我们还需要与实验室进行大量协调，确保他们能够支持这些系统整合，”他说道，并补充说，将这类软件用于与安全关键系统相关的场景，意味着 Rivian 必须格外谨慎。
“There’s a lot of plumbing behind the scenes we have to do to make sure that that works, and it’s not just within Rivian. That’s also a lot of coordination with the labs to make sure they enable that plumbing,” he said, adding that putting this kind of software near safety-critical systems means Rivian has to be extremely careful.
“你肯定不希望一个智能体自行决定‘嘿，现在是时候刹车了，或者该转向了’。因此，任何涉及车辆级控制的功能都不会交给智能体来执行，”他说。
“You wouldn’t want an agent to determine, ‘hey, it’s time to apply the brakes, or time to steer the vehicle.’ So anything that’s vehicle-level controls are not being handed to an agent,” he said.
相反，他认为最终的实现方式会更类似于人们目前使用这些智能体应用的方式。这意味着 Rivian 需要找到一种方法，将车辆与像 Muse 这类应用为用户收集的所有上下文信息连接起来。
Instead, he thinks the implementation will look more like an extension of how people currently use these agentic apps. That would mean Rivian would have to find a way to connect the vehicle to all of the context that apps like Muse collect on their users.
例如，Scaringe 表示，驾驶员可以在进入更深层次操作前，请求 Rivian 助手开启通风座椅。“然后同时说：‘我们昨天讨论过这顿饭。我计划周五请朋友来家里。你能帮我想想我们该做什么菜吗？’”他说。此时，汽车就可以从驾驶员通过另一台设备与助手之前的对话中获取相关上下文信息。
For example, Scaringe said, a driver could ask the Rivian assistant to turn on the ventilated seats before going deeper. “And then simultaneously say, ‘We were talking yesterday about this meal. I’m planning to have guests over on Friday. Can you help me think through what we’re going to make?’,” he said. The car could then pull the driver’s context from a conversation they had with the assistant on another device.
当然，Rivian 并非第一家在车辆软件中加入 AI 智能体的美国汽车公司。今年早些时候，特斯拉推出了一项新功能，允许用户与 SpaceX 的 Grok 聊天机器人及其 Grok Bot 助手进行对话。
Of course, Rivian wouldn’t be the first American car company to add AI agents to a car’s software. Earlier this year, Tesla added a feature that let users talk to both SpaceX’s Grok chatbot and also its Grok Bot assistant.