Saphira AI Joins NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab to Advance AI for Autonomous Systems
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SAN FRANCISCO - Californer -- SEATTLE, WA – Saphira AI, the leading AI-powered platform for automating functional safety and cybersecurity compliance in hardware and autonomous systems, today announced its inclusion in the NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab, the first ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) accredited inspection lab for AI-driven physical systems.

This milestone enables Saphira to work closely with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners to verify and validate AI-driven safety-critical systems, ensuring alignment with rigorous functional safety and cybersecurity standards such as ISO 26262 (automotive), IEC 61508 (industrial), ISO 13849 (machinery), ISO/IEC TR 5469 (AI), and ISO/SAE 21434.

Saphira automates end-to-end safety and security case generation, including:

• Item Definition → HARA / TARA → FSC / TSC → full Safety & Security Case
• Native Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) aligned with ISO 21434
• Automatic generation of system, safety, and security diagrams (Mermaid rendering)
• One-click export of audit-ready PDFs and supporting evidence packages

In production deployments, including with leading automotive, aerospace, industrial, and defense manufacturers, Saphira has enabled teams to reduce safety case development time by approximately 70%, even when starting with incomplete OEM inputs—a common challenge for Tier-1 suppliers and emerging autonomous programs.

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NVIDIA Halos is a comprehensive full-stack safety system for physical AI that unifies safety elements from vehicle and robotics architectures to AI models. It combines hardware and software components, tools, models, and design principles to safeguard AI-based, end-to-end AV and robotics stacks.

"Joining the NVIDIA Halos Lab is a significant step forward for Saphira as we work to accelerate trustworthy AI deployment in physical systems," said Akshay Chalana, Co-Founder & CEO of Saphira AI. "By combining our automated compliance workflows with NVIDIA's ecosystem leadership, we're helping teams build safer, more auditable autonomous and AI-driven systems at scale."

The NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab (Halos) provides ANSI/ANAB-accredited testing and validation services for AI systems, focusing on functional safety, cybersecurity, and AI compliance across industries including automotive, robotics, and industrial automation.

For more information about Saphira AI, visit https://saphira.ai or contact maui@saphira.ai.

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About Saphira AI

Saphira AI is a YC-backed startup building the compliance reasoning and traceability layer for safety-critical hardware teams. The platform ingests fragmented engineering data and automatically generates auditable functional safety and cybersecurity artifacts (HARA, FMEA, TARA, safety cases) with full citations, gap flags, confidence scores, and live propagation on design changes. Saphira helps autonomous vehicle, robotics, and industrial teams reduce certification time and manual rework while maintaining engineering rigor.