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Brussels, 5 December 2024 – Aurora Labs has been awarded the prestigious Top Innovator prize for CLEPA Innovation Awards 2024 for LOCI – Line-Of-Code Intelligence platform.

The ninth CLEPA Innovation Awards showcased ground-breaking ideas in green and digital technology across the automotive supply industry. The event awarded 12 Top Innovators and included talks with high-level EU policy makers on the future of transport.
“The CLEPA Innovation Awards shine a light on the latest innovations from automotive suppliers and highlight the outstanding efforts within our industry,” said CLEPA’s Secretary General Benjamin Krieger. “By focusing on digital and green mobility, we’re addressing pressing EU needs for transforming business practices towards faster, more advanced, and diverse solutions.”
Since 1959, CLEPA has been a key voice for automotive suppliers in Europe, and this 65th-anniversary milestone brought together key policy makers Signe Ratso, Deputy Director-General, DG for Research and Innovation, and MEP Andrea Wechsler (EPP). They joined CLEPA’s President, Matthias Zink and Deloitte’s Elmar Pritsch on stage for a panel discussion on the key drivers for this industry to stay competitive and continue leading innovation.
Matthias Zink, who is CEO Powertrain & Chassis at Schaeffler, will mark his first year as CLEPA President in January 2025. He stressed the need for technology openness and stronger EU business growth:
“As our industry undergoes its transformation, we need appealing business conditions and clear pathways to achieve our goals. This means having regulations that welcome all technologies, cut down on foreign dependence, and help us reach climate targets faster.”
Elmar Pritsch, Global Software-defined Vehicle Leader at Deloitte, added “a European framework for digital type approval can be regarded as a game changer for the entire automotive industry: The compliant deployment of new vehicle features via efficient over-the-air updates would enhance road safety considerably.”
Explore this year’s top innovations, and other materials here: CLEPA 2024 Innovation Awards

About CLEPA

CLEPA, the European Association of Automotive Suppliers based in Brussels, represents over 3,000 companies, from multi-nationals to SMEs, supplying state-of-the-art components and innovative technology for safe, smart and sustainable mobility, investing over €30 billion yearly in research and development. Automotive suppliers in Europe directly employ 1.7 million people in the EU.

LOCI 2.0 detects emerging software anomalies and trends, provides guidance on the progress of project branches for seamless integration, and helps develop accurate, targeted tests, improving system quality, reliability, and compatibility.

[Tel Aviv, June 13, 2024] — Aurora Labs today announced a technical preview of the new extended version of LOCI (Line-of-Code Intelligence™), the first AI Advisor Engineer with advanced prompting capabilities. Aurora Labs is building a future where anyone can be an expert developer or tester and make reliable, high-quality software using a proprietary Large Code Language Model (LCLM). Designed with the insights and needs of software developers and embedded systems engineers in mind, LOCI enhances software reliability, quality, and predictive software maintenance across a wide range of platforms including cloud, mobile applications, HPC, and embedded systems. LOCI supports diverse hardware from suppliers such as Infineon, NVIDIA, NXP, Qualcomm, Renesas, Samsung, and STMicroelectronics. A special free early access offer for engineers will be available for the first batch of users before the general availability in Q4 2024.

LOCI 2.0 extends the capabilities of GitHub Copilot. After coding with or without a Copilot-like tool, LOCI 2.0 advises on quality, reliability, and compatibility issues enabling the developers and testers to meet the defined KPIs. Deployed in highly demanding industries, such as Automotive, LOCI 2.0 features are compatible with the highest-quality processes for critical safety software projects.

LOCI is equipped with Aurora Labs LCLM, a Large Code Language model, that analyzes software artifacts and transforms complicated information into meaningful insights. Unlike existing Large Language Models, LOCI 2.0 tokenizers are more productive and efficient because they are x1000 smaller and have reinvented the vocabulary and pipeline training using only 6 GPUs. LOCI trained on real-time tracing of different systems-on-chip, starting in early 2017, and created billions of ASM tokens. LOCI has been trained on more than 5 billion lines of code in various languages, such as C and C++. The advanced model has an error prediction mechanism to ensure maximum model quality.

The cutting-edge AI Advisor brings transformative capabilities to software development. LOCI predicts the impact of project branching on software behavior, compares integration efforts of different pull requests, and detects dead code while providing evidence of SW behavior deviations for root-cause analysis, even without access to the source code. LOCI identifies cloned code across multiple repositories, creating a clear view of current and older systems for maintenance. This helps developers and testers understand system functionality and dependencies. 

LOCI identifies the parts of the code that have changed to simplify the software update file creation and installation, ensuring seamless software updates. These features empower developers, testers, and IT managers to enhance software reliability, quality, and performance of over-the-air (OTA) updates. LOCI 2.0 creates software binary images and delta files for updates, improving system stability and compatibility, reducing data size, extending storage life, and minimizing device downtime for software updates. LOCI assists with recommendations for the risk management of SW updates by providing predictive insights into compatibility and performance degradation issues when introducing new and updated code or images.

The LOCI Advisor Engineer brings attention to deviations in the running software that are invaluable to intrusion detection systems. Suspicious software activity creates deviations in the software behavior that LOCI identifies using a behavioral software protection signature while continuously monitoring the software during the lifecycle of the project.

“Aurora Labs started this journey seven years ago, using natural language processing (NLP) to understand machine codes. We’ve reached a significant milestone by incorporating a transformer model, adding proprietary layers, and reinventing tokenizers and vocabulary. This sets the stage for a future where software engineering goes beyond traditional limits, improving capabilities and smoothly integrating with the latest technologies to boost software quality and reliability.” said Zohar Fox, CEO of Aurora Labs.

Thomas Schneid, Senior Director of Software, Partnership & Ecosystem Management at Infineon Technologies, reflected on their experience: “LOCI 2.0 is designed for software engineers and impressively supports complex software systems. Improving system quality, reliability, and compatibility are our main takeaways from the impactful data provided by LOCI 2.0. As a leader in automotive semiconductors, we are very happy to offer our AURIX™ TC4x family of microcontrollers (MCUs) with LOCI 2.0. This innovative solution will empower automotive manufacturers to deliver safer, more reliable vehicles and enhance performance throughout the vehicle’s lifetime.”

As Aurora Labs gears up for the full launch of LOCI 2.0 in Q4 of 2024, a special early access offer of free licenses is available for the first batch of users in the Visual Studio and GitHub stores. Further information on LOCI 2.0 is available on www.www.auroralabs.com and for embedded systems on the Infineon website.

T-Systems, a leading provider of digital services in Europe and a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, and Aurora Labs, an innovative AI-driven automotive software company, have announced today that they will offer Aurora Labs’ differential software update capabilities alongside T-Systems’ end-to-end Over-the-Air (OTA) platform to the automotive industry. This solution will support car manufacturers in optimizing Time-to-Market and the total cost of ownership (TCO) for Software Defined Vehicles (SDV). And will also enhance the overall driving experience for customers through continuous software updates and improvements.

T-Systems and Aurora Labs will combine their respective expertise in connected car services cloud infrastructure, and specialized OTA update technology. The two companies will offer one of the most flexible, secure and cost-effective solutions for automotive manufacturers and fleets. These clients will be able to seamlessly update any device in the vehicle, anywhere, and at any time of the day, even when the vehicle is in use.

Aurora Labs’ patented Line-Of-Code Intelligence (LOCI) and OTA software update technology offer unique features such as up to 97 percent smaller update files, which minimizes data usage, and additive updates that ensure vehicle uptime with an advanced roll-back mechanism preventing vehicle software failure, in accordance with UNECE R156 regulations. T-Systems brings extensive experience in providing comprehensive connected car services, back-end infrastructure, and data management solutions for more than 30 million vehicles through its end-to-end OTA platform. T-Systems’ platform boosts scalability to manage vast fleets, modularity that seamlessly integrates with any OEM’s existing infrastructure, all while achieving an update success rate of up to 99.99 percent.

By combining Aurora Labs’ LOCI technology with T-Systems’ OTA platform, the solution will address key challenges faced by the automotive industry, such as complexity of their digital eco-systems, data volume, update time and cybersecurity. This collaboration will enable automotive manufacturers and fleets to manage and update their vehicles’ software seamlessly, ensuring optimal performance, better user experience and reduced risk of cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

“Combining our capabilities allows us to deliver differential software updates, meaning we deliver and deploy only the part of the code that is really affected by the change. This is leading to much smaller software packages and less data traffic,” said Christian Hort, SVP Automotive at T-Systems. “By combining Aurora Labs LOCI features with our end-to-end OTA platform, we are able to blend highly specific innovations with the reliability of our OTA platform and the expertise of our teams in managing large OEM fleets.”

T-Systems, a leading provider of digital services in Europe and a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, and Aurora Labs, an innovative AI-driven automotive software company, have announced today that they will offer Aurora Labs’ differential software update capabilities alongside T-Systems’ end-to-end Over-the-Air (OTA) platform to the automotive industry. This solution will support car manufacturers in optimizing Time-to-Market and the total cost of ownership (TCO) for Software Defined Vehicles (SDV). And will also enhance the overall driving experience for customers through continuous software updates and improvements.

T-Systems and Aurora Labs will combine their respective expertise in connected car services cloud infrastructure, and specialized OTA update technology. The two companies will offer one of the most flexible, secure and cost-effective solutions for automotive manufacturers and fleets. These clients will be able to seamlessly update any device in the vehicle, anywhere, and at any time of the day, even when the vehicle is in use.

Aurora Labs’ patented Line-Of-Code Intelligence (LOCI) and OTA software update technology offer unique features such as up to 97 percent smaller update files, which minimizes data usage, and additive updates that ensure vehicle uptime with an advanced roll-back mechanism preventing vehicle software failure, in accordance with UNECE R156 regulations. T-Systems brings extensive experience in providing comprehensive connected car services, back-end infrastructure, and data management solutions for more than 30 million vehicles through its end-to-end OTA platform. T-Systems’ platform boosts scalability to manage vast fleets, modularity that seamlessly integrates with any OEM’s existing infrastructure, all while achieving an update success rate of up to 99.99 percent.

By combining Aurora Labs’ LOCI technology with T-Systems’ OTA platform, the solution will address key challenges faced by the automotive industry, such as complexity of their digital eco-systems, data volume, update time and cybersecurity. This collaboration will enable automotive manufacturers and fleets to manage and update their vehicles’ software seamlessly, ensuring optimal performance, better user experience and reduced risk of cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

“Combining our capabilities allows us to deliver differential software updates, meaning we deliver and deploy only the part of the code that is really affected by the change. This is leading to much smaller software packages and less data traffic,” said Christian Hort, SVP Automotive at T-Systems. “By combining Aurora Labs LOCI features with our end-to-end OTA platform, we are able to blend highly specific innovations with the reliability of our OTA platform and the expertise of our teams in managing large OEM fleets.”

“T-Systems’ global presence and extensive experience in providing and delivering connected car solutions make them an ideal partner for Aurora Labs,” said Zohar Fox, CEO of Aurora Labs. “We are excited to bring our unique features to T-Systems’ OTA platform, ultimately enhancing the safety and user experience of connected vehicles.”

In the evolving landscape of Electric Vehicles (EV) and software-defined vehicles (SDV), it’s becoming increasingly crucial to ensure that every Electronic Control Unit (ECU), including microprocessors and microcontrollers, can be updated securely and seamlessly. This process should aim to minimize disruptions and protect against emerging cybersecurity threats, thereby enhancing the overall user experience for vehicle owners and drivers. To foster wider acceptance and utilization of new software features, it’s essential to mitigate potential risks, including those related to cybersecurity, and cultivate trust among fleet owners and vehicle users.

T-Systems and Aurora Labs will be demonstrating the OTA Update solution at the Automobil-Elektronik Kongress in Ludwigsburg, Germany on the 18th and 19th of June, at booth 35/36.

Infineon and Aurora Labs have used CES 2024 to unveil a new set of AI-based solutions to improve the long-term reliability and safety of critical automotive components, including steering, braking and airbags.

The companies are offering solutions that implement Aurora Labs’ Line-of-Code Intelligence (LOCI) AI technology on Infineon’s 32-bit TriCore AURIX TC4x family of microcontrollers (MCUs) to enable automotive manufacturers to offer safer, more reliable vehicles and enhance performance over the lifetime of a vehicle.

“For car manufacturers, this new jointly offered solution promises a safer driving experience by using AI-driven automated processes throughout the software lifecycle of a vehicle. The solution supports real-time monitoring and response to software failures at the MCU- and ECU-level according to WP29 requirements. By protecting applications and over-the-air (OTA) updates, the joint solution helps prevent malicious attacks and hardware safety failure,” said Zohar Fox, CEO and Co-founder of Aurora Labs.

“We have partnered with Infineon to ensure an improved driver experience based on predictive safety maintenance using AI capability. Our solution streamlines OEM software development at lines-of-code and hardware peripheral resolution to enable them to develop safer systems in accordance with ASIL-D.”

According to Thomas Schneid, Senior Director Software, Partner and Ecosystem Management of Infineon, “With the combination of Infineon’s proven AURIX MCUs, along with Aurora Labs’ software to prevent silent data corruption and software misbehaviour in chipsets, our new solution gives car manufacturers and drivers an extended level of safety confidence for critical automotive applications such as steering, braking and airbags.”

The solution leverages Infineon’s AURIX TC4x family of MCUs with real-time safety and security performance. The MCUs are designed for next-generation eMobility, advanced driver assistance (ADAS), automotive E/E architectures and affordable artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

Aurora Labs’ AI- and ML-based features are implemented in the AURIX TC4x PPU (Parallel Processing Unit), a purpose-built AI accelerator, and do not share any resources with the OEM applications running on the CPU.

8/1/24

Tel Aviv, November 16, 2023 – What a fantastic way to end 2023 and usher in 2024! The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has announced that Aurora Labs has been named a CES 2024 Innovation Awards honoree for Auto Update in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) category.

The CES Innovation Awards program received a record number of over 3,000 submissions. The announcement was made ahead of CES 2024, the world’s most powerful technology event, happening Jan. 9-12 in Las Vegas, USA.

The CES Innovation Awards program, owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, is an annual competition honouring outstanding design and engineering in 29 consumer technology product categories. Those with the highest rating receive the “Best of Innovation” distinction. An elite panel of industry expert judges, including members of the media, designers, engineers and more, reviewed submissions based on innovation, engineering and functionality, aesthetics and design.

OTA (Over-The-Air) updates enable car manufacturers to fix inevitable bugs in new software code, protect against security vulnerabilities, and offer ongoing feature improvements. As OTA updates become a frequent occurrence, a new approach is required that will reduce costs, reduce vehicle downtime and improve availability. Aurora Labs’ Auto Update uses AI to identify changes in the vehicle source code and integrate into the software developer’s toolchain to enable six times smaller update files than current OTA solutions, a 50% saving in hardware memory requirements and seamless in-vehicle updates with zero downtime for the user.

Zohar Fox, CEO and Co-founder of Aurora Labs commented: “I am thrilled and proud of this great achievement. Receiving the CES Innovation Award Honoree for 2024 for Auto Update is once again a testament to Aurora Labs” continuous commitment to bring actionable innovation to the automotive industry. This recognition follows our previous Innovation Award at CES 2021 and fuels our passion to continue redefining the future of mobility to be safer and more accessible.

Auto Update offers these unique advantages:

1. Auto Update writes its additive update files to the next free space on the memory, enabling a fully redundant software update solution without deleting previous versions, with or without dual flash memory. Cost savings from reduced HW requirements can add up across thousands of vehicles to millions of dollars. In addition to cost savings, not erasing and overwriting software on the device flash extends the life of the memory.
2. Auto Update uses AI and advanced algorithms to make the update files six times smaller than alternative binary update files, saving data transmission and cloud storage costs. The smaller file size also improves transmission times, helping OTA updates perform faster across the fleet.
3. With Auto Update, there’s no need to integrate proprietary software onto every ECU. The updates use the same file format as the original embedded ECU file (ELF, S-Rec, Intel HEX), guaranteeing that all ECUs, microprocessors and microcontrollers can receive the necessary updates. This can reduce integration costs and speed up the development and delivery process by using technology and file formats that are already integrated into the toolchain.

More information on Auto Update is available here: http://www.automotive.auroralabs.com/product/auto-update/

The CES 2024 Innovation Awards honorees can be found at CES.tech/innovation.

To schedule a meeting with Aurora Labs’ executives to learn more, please send a note to info@auroralabs.com

TEL AVIV, Israel – October 4, 2023 — Aurora Labs, the company pioneering the use of AI and Software Intelligence to solve automotive software development challenges, today announced it has been selected as “Auto Tech AI Company of the Year” in the fourth annual AutoTech Breakthrough Awards conducted by AutoTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global automotive and transportation technology markets today.

Aurora Labs brings AI-based Vehicle Software Intelligence to the entire lifecycle of a vehicle from software development to testing, integration, quality control, continuous certification, and on-the-road over-the-air software updates. Aurora Labs focuses on the embedded systems that are key to the development of the software-defined vehicle. The technology’s understanding of software changes and behavior enables remote software maintenance that offers new vehicle features and functions through the deployment of unobtrusive over-the-air software updates.

Aurora Labs’ solution is three-pronged — Auto Detect, Auto Validate and Auto Update — allowing it to be used by developers during the software creation process as well as other groups. This is done through QA, integration, over-the-air updating and continued certification required through UNECE WP.29.

Uniquely, Aurora Labs’ solution integrates early into the auto manufacturer’s software development cycle and can integrate into any electronic control unit (ECU) and any computer system in the vehicle. The solution also works on very small embedded systems. Use cases include managing infotainment and ADAS, steering systems, car seat heating, and more. In addition, Aurora Labs’ unique approach allows for the addressing of the new zonal E/E architectures which are replacing ECUs with Virtual Machines, Dockers and Containers.

“Our approach was built looking at the challenges of the automotive world. By using AI to understand the interaction between lines of code, Vehicle Software Intelligence is the ‘AI detective’ for automotive manufacturers, bringing them insights that are not easily seen or successfully tested,” said Zohar Fox, Aurora Labs’ CEO & Co-founder. “We’re grateful for this award from AutoTech Breakthrough at a time when vehicles and embedded systems are very complex. Our solution is providing insights that make software safer, and enables manufacturers to more efficiently develop and manage new vehicle features and mobility services.”

The mission of the annual AutoTech Breakthrough Awards program is to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive analysis and evaluation of automotive and transportation technology categories, including Connected Car, Electric Vehicles, Engine Tech, Automotive CyberSecurity, Sensor Technology, Traffic Tech and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 1,600 nominations from over 15 different countries throughout the world.

“Congratulations to Aurora Labs, our ‘Auto Tech AI Company of the Year!’ Their Vehicle Software Intelligence is changing the way software quality and management is being applied throughout the vehicle’s architecture, and throughout the vehicle’s life cycle, increasing functional safety and improving the user experience,” said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director of AutoTech Breakthrough Awards. “The necessity of understanding how a cars’ software is working and how that software changes over time makes the auto transition to software a life or death matter. Car companies have always put safety first, and AI tools will help them maintain that commitment moving forward.”

Aurora Labs is pioneering the use of AI and Software Intelligence to solve the challenge of automotive software development.

Aurora Labs brings AI-based Vehicle Software Intelligence to the entire lifecycle of a vehicle from software development to testing, integration, quality control, continuous certification and on-the-road over-the-air software updates. Aurora Labs focuses on the embedded systems that are key to the development of the software-defined vehicle and enables automotive manufacturers to more efficiently manage software costs and the resources required to develop and manage new vehicle features and mobility services.

The Company’s products have been adopted on customer platforms around the world, and with a commitment to conform and meet ISO-26262/ASIL-D and ASPICE-L2, will be in vehicles in coming car models. Aurora Labs, founded in 2016, has raised approximately $100m and has been granted 100 patents. The Company is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Germany, North Macedonia, the US, and Japan. www.automotive.auroralabs.com

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