Turing Inc. (Turing Motors), founded in 2021 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, develops end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving AI and large-scale foundation models that aim to give vehicles human-like understanding of social context and road norms, with the explicit mission of achieving fully autonomous driving. The company achieved what it describes as Japan's first real-time autonomous driving on public roads using a vision-language-action (VLA) model and has released driving datasets for research. Turing partnered with automotive supplier Denso. In November 2025 it raised about $99 million (≈¥9.77 billion) in a Series A plus a ¥5.5 billion credit line, at a valuation around $388 million, backed by a deep syndicate including ANRI, Denso, Canon Marketing Japan, ENEOS, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Mizuho Capital, Sony Financial Ventures and Z Venture Capital.
Turing
ActiveEnd-to-end AI for fully autonomous driving in Japan
Total raised
$99M
1 round
Stage
Series A
Nov 2025
Team
51-200
since 2021
Pricing
Enterprise
Founded
2021
Tokyo, Japan
Agent-ready
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End-to-end autonomous driving AI
Vision-language-action (VLA) driving model
Large-scale driving foundation model
Real-time public-road autonomous driving
Open driving datasets for research
Large-scale GPU training clusters
Denso automotive partnership
Full-stack vehicle development
10/100
Early
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
No public agent surfaces detected yet.
Nov 2025 Series A $99M ● ANRI
Capital network
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- What does Turing build?
- End-to-end AI and foundation models for fully autonomous driving, including VLA-based driving systems.
- Where is Turing based?
- Tokyo, Japan; it was founded in 2021.
- How much did Turing raise?
- About $99M (≈¥9.77B) in a Series A in November 2025, led by ANRI, at a ~$388M valuation.
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