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PepsiCo and Gatik announce multi-year agreement to deploy autonomous freight in North America. This deployment will bring autonomous trucks into one of the world's largest food and beverage supply chains, accelerating PepsiCo's push to build more innovative, resilient, and responsive transportation networks. PepsiCo and Gatik announced a multi-year strategic partnership to bring autonomous freight into PepsiCo's North America food and beverage supply chain, marking the largest commercial autonomous freight deployment to date. Today, Gatik is already operating for PepsiCo across Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. For PepsiCo, the partnership strengthens its supply chain network that makes and moves its food and beverage products across the United States every day. It provides a practical way to improve delivery consistency, add capacity, and support customer service across a complex, high-volume operation. It also marks a major commercial milestone for Gatik, which is now delivering autonomous freight at commercial scale inside one of the world's largest and most demanding consumer goods supply chains. "Serving our vast network of customers requires a supply chain that is safe, reliable, and built for the future," said Jim Farrell, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain, PepsiCo. "Gatik is already operating inside our networks and brings the autonomous freight technology, commercial experience, and scale we need to strengthen service, add capacity, and move products more consistently for our customers." The partnership is focused on PepsiCo's regional transportation networks, where products move daily from site to site. These networks are high-frequency, time-sensitive, and essential to keeping products flowing consistently. "Autonomous trucking has reached commercial scale when it operates inside one of the most demanding supply chains on the planet," said Gautam Narang, CEO and Co-Founder of Gatik. "That is what Gatik is doing with PepsiCo. Our autonomous trucks are already moving products every day across Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas, and this partnership is proof that Gatik is becoming central to how the world's largest companies move goods." Gatik's autonomous trucks are designed for end-to-end deliveries across highways and surface streets, with dynamic route orchestration capabilities built for complex regional logistics networks spanning hundreds of pickup and drop-off locations. This enables PepsiCo to modify route plans in response to daily operational needs, including adding or removing stops, responding to shifts in demand, and adapting to activity levels across distribution centers. That flexibility helps PepsiCo reduce variability, improve on-time performance, and add capacity without requiring major changes to its existing operations. Gatik's first deployment with PepsiCo was in 2022 and today, Gatik operates with more than 98% on-time delivery across its operations today. This agreement builds on PepsiCo's experience running one of North America's largest private fleets and brings Gatik's autonomous freight capabilities into real, day-to-day supply chain operations. PepsiCo's approach is grounded in responsible workforce planning and continued investment in its people. PepsiCo and Gatik are focused on adding capacity where it's needed most: high-demand regional networks that are hard to staff and critical to keeping shelves stocked for consumers. Ultimately, it is about supporting PepsiCo's frontline teams with greater flexibility, consistency, and reliability across the transportation network - and ensuring PepsiCo's people grow with the future of the business. Gatik is a leader in autonomous freight. For more information visit www.gatik.ai. Media resources

Gatik joins NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab to support the scaling of driverless freight operations across north america. * Press Releases * March 16, 2026 Mountain View, CA, March 16, 2026 - Gatik, a leader in autonomous trucking, announced it is joining the NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab ecosystem, the first ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) accredited inspection lab for AI-driven physical systems. The move reflects a shared commitment between the two companies at the operational frontier of autonomous trucking. Gatik already operates fully driverless trucks on public roads, day and night, across Texas, Arkansas, and Arizona in the United States and Ontario, Canada. The company completes daily freight deliveries for Fortune 50 retailers and major consumer packaged goods companies, with no human driver or safety observer. Since launching fully driverless operations in 2025, Gatik has been safely operating round-the-clock for multiple customers across Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, and Ontario, Canada, connecting dense regional networks of warehouses and retail stores. That progress, backed by $600 million in contracted revenue and Gatik's plans to scale to hundreds of driverless trucks by the end of 2026, makes it the operating benchmark in autonomous trucking. It also makes Gatik the ideal real-world proving grounds for the NVIDIA Halos framework and for the validation infrastructure needed to scale driverless fleets safely to hundreds of trucks. "We're excited to welcome Gatik to the NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab," said Dr. Riccardo Mariani, NVIDIA's VP of Industry Safety. "Gatik's leadership in autonomous transportation and commitment to safety innovation align with our mission to advance safe physical AI systems. Together, we look forward to accelerating the development of rigorous inspection methods that strengthen reliability across autonomous platforms." NVIDIA Halos is a comprehensive full-stack safety system for physical AI that unifies safety elements across vehicle and robotics architectures and their underlying AI models. It combines hardware and software components, tools, models, and design principles to safeguard AI-based, end-to-end AV and robotics stacks. "Our work with NVIDIA has been central to bringing autonomous trucking into real-world operations," said Apeksha Kumavat, Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of Gatik. "Expanding that collaboration with Halos reflects NVIDIA's trust in the systems Gatik has built over the years and our shared commitment to strengthening the safety foundation that makes driverless freight possible at scale." Gatik Driver(TM), the company's third-generation autonomous system, combines state-of-the-art AI architecture with reasoning and automotive-grade hardware designed for high-frequency commercial logistics. Before launching driverless operations, Gatik completed an exhaustive independent review of key components of its Safety Assessment Framework conducted by globally recognized testing, inspection, and certification organizations with experience in autonomous system safety assurance. Gatik also maintains active engagement with the U.S. Department of Transportation, including the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, as well as state agencies and local stakeholders across its operating markets. NVIDIA Halos integrates functional safety, cybersecurity, AI safety, and regulatory compliance into a unified development and verification environment for autonomous systems. In addition, the NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab, a core entry point to the Halos safety framework, is the first program accredited by the ANSI National Accreditation Board for an inspection plan that unifies many aspects of safety within a single framework. Gatik's expansion plans are supported by the company's collaboration with Isuzu Motors to develop a mass-production autonomous-ready vehicle platform for large-scale deployment. At that scale, safety validation becomes a continuous operational discipline. NVIDIA Halos provides the infrastructure to support that process as safety standards governing autonomous systems continue to evolve. Together, NVIDIA-powered Gatik trucks represent one of the most significant deployments of physical AI in autonomous trucking, operating on contracted freight routes for major retailers every day. About Gatik. Gatik AI Inc. develops AI-powered autonomous trucking solutions for regional logistics networks. The Gatik Driver(TM) is a scalable, interpretable AI system purpose-built to enable safe, consistent, and high-frequency freight movement. Proven in real-world driverless operations for Fortune 50 customers, Gatik's technology enhances the reliability and cost efficiency of B2B supply chains at scale. Founded in 2017, Gatik's driverless trucks are commercially deployed on public roads across multiple markets, including Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Nebraska, and Ontario. Supported by close collaborations with strategic partners - including Isuzu Motors Limited, NVIDIA, and Ryder - Gatik is advancing reliable and efficient freight operations at scale. Gatik, the Gatik logo, and Gatik Driver are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gatik AI Inc. Isuzu and the Isuzu logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Isuzu Motors Limited. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Safe Harbor Statement This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including, but not limited to, statements regarding Gatik's business strategy, commercial deployment at scale, and anticipated technological performance. These statements are based on current expectations and involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially due to factors including, but not limited to: the safety and reliability of autonomous driving technology; shifts in the regulatory landscape for AI and autonomous vehicles; cybersecurity threats and data privacy compliance; global supply chain disruptions; and changes in market demand for middle-mile logistics. Gatik undertakes no obligation to update these statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release, except as required by law. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.