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January 8, 2026
Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to 'think like a human'
Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo at CES 2026, which includes a reasoning vision language action model that allows an autonomous vehicle to think more like a human and provide chain-of-thought reasoning.

TL;DR
- Nvidia launched Alpamayo, an open-source AI system for autonomous vehicles.
- Alpamayo includes AI models, simulation tools, and datasets for training physical robots and vehicles.
- Alpamayo 1 is a 10 billion-parameter model enabling AVs to reason through complex driving scenarios.
- The system helps AVs understand, reason, and act in the real world, explaining their driving decisions.
- Alpamayo 1's code is available on Hugging Face for developers to fine-tune and build tools.
- Nvidia is releasing an open dataset with over 1,700 hours of driving data.
- AlpaSim, an open-source simulation framework, is launched on GitHub for validating autonomous driving systems.
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