May Mobility with Grab brings self-driving taxis to Southeast Asia
Press Release, 29 October 2025
In a strategic push into the Asia-Pacific region, U.S.-based autonomous vehicle specialist May Mobility, Inc. has secured a multi-year collaboration and investment from Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant Grab Holdings Limited to roll out its self-driving systems across the region. The deal will see May Mobility’s advanced drive-by-AI stack integrated into Grab’s fleet-matching, routing and vehicle-management architecture as both companies aim to launch commercial AV services in densely populated urban markets in Southeast Asia.
Under the partnership, May Mobility will leverage Grab’s proprietary mapping platform “GrabMaps” to adapt its technology to regional conditions — from left-hand driving and heavy traffic to complex infrastructure in cities such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Grab, in return, plans to tap into May’s experience from U.S. and Japanese deployments to upskill its driver-partner base, prepare its operations for autonomous transition, and deploy AVs safely at scale. The collaboration marks May Mobility’s third ride-hail tie-up (following launches with Lyft, Inc. and Uber Technologies, Inc.) and signals that the company is aggressively shifting beyond its North American and Japanese footprint into growth markets.
By combining May’s patented Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) AI—the system that reasons through thousands of driving scenarios every second—with Grab’s deep local presence and mapping data, the pair believe they can accelerate time-to-market for autonomous ride-hail in Southeast Asia. The agreement also emphasises a “safety-first” approach, where driver-partners may transition into AV-related roles and where the firms will jointly customise the rolling-out operations for regional infrastructure and regulatory requirements.
