Nvidia announces the Alpamayo family of AI models, tools, and datasets for AVs, and details a collaboration with Mercedes-Benz on its first full-stack AV effort
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Discussion
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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@SawyerMerritt Well that's just exactly what Tesla is doing 😂 What they will find is that it's easy to get to 99% and then super hard to solve the long tail of the distribution.
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@nvidianewsroom
@nvidianewsroom
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NVIDIA Alpamayo is the first open ecosystem for developing reasoning vision-language-action (VLA) models for autonomous vehicles. Alpamayo 1, AlpaSim, and Physical AI Open Datasets help AVs perceive, reason, and act with human-like judgment, paving the way for level 4 autonomy. […
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@niccruzpatane
Nic Cruz Patane
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NVIDIA has released a video of its new reasoning-based autonomous vehicle platform, called Alpamayo, navigating around San Francisco with zero interventions. [video]
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@iamborisi
Boris Ivanovic
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Proud to share the release of NVIDIA Alpamayo! 🚀 An open ecosystem for reasoning AVs with VLA models (Alpamayo 1, reasoning traces + trajectories), open AV datasets (1700+ hr, multi-sensor, global), and AlpaSim (closed-loop E2E sim). Excited to see the community build with it!
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@stocksavvyshay
Shay Boloor
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$NVDA CEO Jensen Huang just announced Alpamayo which he calls the world's first thinking and reasoning model built for autonomous vehicles. By open sourcing the Alpamayo stack, Nvidia is pushing self driving forward as a category after years of work by thousands of engineers. [vi…
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@stockmktnewz
Evan
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NVIDIA $NVDA CEO JENSEN HUANG JUST ANNOUNCED : The first full stack autonomous vehicle from Nvidia will be on the road in Q1 2026 in the United States 🇺🇸... “there is no doubt in my mind this will be one of the biggest robotics industries” [image]
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@stockmktnewz
Evan
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NVIDIA $NVDA CEO JENSEN HUANG JUST SAID: Autonomous vehicles are now “fully gear” and this will be the first huge mainstream robotics industry [image]
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@stocksavvyshay
Shay Boloor
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$NVDA CEO Jensen Huang said the first full-stack autonomous vehicle built on Nvidia's platform will be on U.S. roads in Q1 2026. He added there is “no doubt” this becomes one of the largest robotics industries in the world. [image]
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@niccruzpatane
Nic Cruz Patane
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2026: “We imagine that someday, a billion cars on the road will all be autonomous. You could have it as a robotaxi that you're orchestrating and renting from somebody, or you could own it and have it driving by itself. Or you could decide to drive […
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@stockmktnewz
Evan
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NVIDIA $NVDA CEO JENSEN HUANG JUST ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCH OF: ALPAMAYO “the worlds first thinking, reasoning model for autonomous vehicles” [image]
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@benbajarin
Ben Bajarin
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Per an interesting stat Jensen just dropped that NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle team is 7,000 people, means ~20% of NVIDIA employees work on autonomous cars.
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@mweinbach
Max Weinbach
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Nvidia is launching an open source end to end autonomous video model, from camera + telemetry in to vehicle control out Similar to Tesla's FSD model [image]
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@stocksavvyshay
Shay Boloor
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$NVDA is trying to own the physical AI feedback loop by building the full pipeline. It simulates the world to train models that can reason & act, stress tests them at massive scale, then ships the stack partners use to deploy and keep improving it in the real world. [video]
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@samsheffer
Sam Sheffer
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@elonmusk @niccruzpatane makes the roads safer for everyone
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@sawyermerritt
Sawyer Merritt
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NEWS: NVIDIA just announced Alpamayo, what CEO Jensen Huang calls the world's first thinking, reasoning autonomous vehicle AI, launching on U.S. roads later this year, starting with the Mercedes CLA. Jensen: “It's trained end-to-end. Literally from camera in to actuation out; It …
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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@niccruzpatane I honestly hope they succeed
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@scobleizer
Robert Scoble
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The question I see others asking is “does NVIDIA Alpamayo affect Tesla?” The short answer is: not really. The long answer is that it sort of gets everyone else back into the game of adding autonomy to their vehicles, but here is the problem: the game is about to switch to [video]
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@mweinbach
Max Weinbach
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btw the Mercedes/Nvidia L2++ stack is vision only, with the classic AV for safety is vision + radar for classification. Main autonomy stack is vision only. No LiDAR in the stack. It's entirely end to end. This is essentially an open source/available version of Tesla's FSD.