Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has unveiled Alpamayo, a new AI platform designed to give autonomous vehicles human-style reasoning, allowing them to handle rare scenarios, operate safely in complex environments and explain their driving decisions.
Speaking at the CES technology conference in Las Vegas, Huang said the platform underpins a driverless version of the Mercedes-Benz CLA, now in production with the German automaker and set for release in the United States before expanding to Europe and Asia.
Jensen claims the project has helped Nvidia deepen its expertise in building real-world robotic systems, marking a broader push into physical AI.
Alpamayo is being released as an open-source model, enabling researchers to access and retrain it freely. Nvidia also revealed that its next-generation Rubin AI chips are already in production and will launch later this year, offering improved energy efficiency and potentially lowering the cost of advanced AI development.
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