Rivian will equip R2 vehicles with its in-house RAP1 autonomy computer and LiDAR starting with employees by end of 2026, with customer deliveries beginning in 2027. LiDAR costs have dropped to a few hundred dollars, and the company plans point-to-point autonomous driving on current hardware by year-end, while targeting an Uber robotaxi service by late 2028.
ScribeToAny transcribes audio and video using Whisper on Modal GPUs, with the web app running on Cloudflare Workers. Workers cannot run long GPU jobs or use Modal's gRPC SDK, so the system uses asynchronous HTTP calls: the Worker presigns R2 URLs, spawns transcription via Modal's web endpoint, and receives results through signed webhooks, while media uploads bypass the Worker entirely.