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# Horizon
Welcome!
This page provides an introduction to Horizon, the Agentic Innovation Platform for SDV.
The platform addresses prevalent challenges within the SDV development journey by providing:
* a scalable foundation to accelerate development and significantly reduce wait times
* a modular approach allowing for a partial and gradual adoption of components
* an agentic AI framework and pre-built agents to compress R&D timelines further
## Vision
Platforms enabling efficient software development shouldn’t be differentiating, the product itself should be differentiating.
Horizon provides an open-source, scalable, cloud-hosted, AI-native and developer friendly toolchain for the development of complex embedded software. It provides solutions for code, build, test and release.
By shifting the focus from hardware-led to software-centric development and enabling Agentic AI in the R&D processes at scale, it aims to drive faster innovation, reduce costs, and improve the quality of software development in the automotive industry.
## Initiative
Horizon is an initiative launched by Google and Accenture, poised to revolutionize the embedded software development landscape.
It tackles key challenges in the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) market, including inefficient and inconsistent toolchains, high scaling costs that limit software development, and a hardware-centric approach that blocks rapid innovation
## Streams
Horizon consists of two streams:
* Android development (AAOS IVI, AAOS SDV, AOSP).
* Rest of SDV, enabling cloud-based virtual development of complex system-of-systems.
## Platform overview
## Getting started
Horizon is deployed into a Google Cloud project within the enterprise hierarchy. The deployment is done leveraging Terraform and Argo CD. To deploy Horizon into your project, follow the steps described in the [deployment guide](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/horizon-sdv/blob/main/docs/deployment_guide.md).
Try deployment from Google Cloud Shell. Press the button to clone the official Horizon SDV repository (GoogleCloudPlatform/horizon-sdv) and open the deployment guide:
[](https://shell.cloud.google.com/cloudshell/editor?cloudshell_git_repo=https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/horizon-sdv.git&cloudshell_git_branch=main&cloudshell_tutorial=docs/deployment_guide.md)
We welcome contributions - for details, refer to the [contribution guide](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/horizon-sdv/blob/main/docs/contributing.md).
For consultation regarding an initial setup, specific use case, technology or related topics, please contact horizon-sdv@google.com and horizon-sdv@accenture.com.
## Staying up-to-date
In case you would like to receive updates, you can [subscribe here](https://forms.gle/TFaKXqfHbF6oUAeg6).
In case of questions you can directly reach out to [horizon-sdv@google.com](mailto:horizon-sdv@google.com) and [horizon-sdv@accenture.com](mailto:horizon-sdv@accenture.com).
For specific technical issues you can [raise an issue on Github](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/horizon-sdv/issues).
## Disclaimer
This is not an officially supported Google product. This project is not
eligible for the [Google Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards
Program](https://bughunters.google.com/open-source-security).