{"id":357483,"date":"2026-01-07T18:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357483\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:22:22","slug":"nvidia-ceo-reveals-new-reasoning-ai-tech-for-self-driving-cars-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/357483\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO reveals new \u2018reasoning\u2019 AI tech for self-driving cars | Nvidia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The billionaire boss of the chipmaker Nvidia<\/a>, Jensen Huang, has unveiled new AI technology that he says will help self-driving cars think like humans to navigate more complex situations.<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s most valuable company is to roll out the new technology, Alpamayo, which is designed to help self-driving cars handle tricky situations such as sudden roadworks or unusual driver behaviour on the road, rather than just reacting to previous patterns.<\/p>\n

Nvidia claims Alpamayo will bring chain-of-thought reasoning to self-driving vehicles, combining what the car sees with language-like reasoning.<\/p>\n

In a speech at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Nvidia founder and chief executive said: \u201cThe ChatGPT moment for physical AI is here, when machines begin to understand, reason and act in the real world. Robotaxis are among the first to benefit.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlpamayo brings reasoning to autonomous vehicles, allowing them to think through rare scenarios, drive safely in complex environments and explain their driving decision. It\u2019s the foundation for safe, scalable autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nvidia has started producing a driverless car powered by its technology, the Mercedes-Benz CLA, in partnership with the German carmaker. It will be launched in the US in the coming months, followed by Europe and Asia. Huang showed a video of the car driving through San Francisco with a passenger sitting behind the steering wheel, their hands in their lap.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt drives so naturally because it learned directly from human demonstrators,\u201d Huang said, \u201cbut in every single scenario \u2026 it tells you what it\u2019s going to do, and it reasons about what it\u2019s about to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huang also said the company\u2019s next generation of chips was in full production, and they could deliver five times the computing power of the company\u2019s previous products when serving up chatbots and other AI apps.<\/p>\n

He revealed new details about the chips, which will arrive later this year as Nvidia faces increasing competition from rivals as well as its own customers.<\/p>\n

The Vera Rubin platform, made up of six separate Nvidia chips, is expected to debut later this year. The flagship server will contain 72 of the company\u2019s graphics units and 36 of its new central processors.<\/p>\n

Huang showed how they could be strung together into \u201cpods\u201d with more than 1,000 Rubin chips and said they could improve the efficiency of generating what are known as \u201ctokens\u201d \u2013 the fundamental unit of AI systems \u2013 by 10 times.<\/p>\n

To get the new performance results, Huang said the Rubin chips used a proprietary kind of data that the company hopes the wider industry will adopt.<\/p>\n

While Nvidia still dominates the market for training AI models, it faces far more competition \u2013 from traditional rivals such as Advanced Micro Devices as well as customers such as Alphabet\u2019s Google \u2013 in delivering the fruits of those products to hundreds of millions of users of chatbots and other technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The billionaire boss of the chipmaker Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has unveiled new AI technology that he says will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-357483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}