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2026-01-06T01:35:31.917Z
Nvidia unveils Alpamayo for autonomous vehicles

Nvidia's Alpamayo on 2025 Mercedes Benz CLA slide at Nvidia Live 2026

(Image credit: Future)

Nvidia seeks to change the way self-driving cars see and interact with the world through an open-source AI model dubbed ‘Alpamayo.’

The presentation video showed a human driver who didn’t touch the wheel a single time, letting Alpamayo do all the work as the autonomous vehicle traversed busy intersections, recognized potentially perilous situations like a ball rolling into the street (a warning that a child may soon run into the street after it – and one did), and safely arrived at the destination.

The idea behind Alpamayo is to bring “humanlike thinking to AV decision-making,” meaning the system doesn’t just react to the environment around it, but instead uses the environment to reason, predict, and maneuver.

And after 8 long years of waiting, we’re finally getting an Nvidia-powered self-driving car in the 2025 Mecedes Benz CLA.

2026-01-06T00:04:36.765Z
Nvidia Live wrapped

Jensen Huang at Nvidia keynote standing next to robots

(Image credit: Future)

I’m back from Nvidia Live, where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presented several new AI-powered endeavors, including a new open-source model for autonomous vehicles, improvements to agentic AI models, impressive hardware upgrades for factories, and even some new adorable robotic friends.

It wasn’t without resistance, though, as Huang went head to head with technical difficulties during the presentation – nothing major, just some presentation malfunctions.

I’ll break down the key points here.

2026-01-05T15:30:35.264Z
Honing in on Nvidia Live with Jensen Huang

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