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Nvidia seeks to change the way self-driving cars see and interact with the world through an open-source AI model dubbed ‘Alpamayo.’<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The idea behind Alpamayo is to bring “humanlike thinking to AV decision-making<\/a>,” meaning the system doesn’t just react to the environment around it, but instead uses the environment to reason, predict, and maneuver.<\/p>\n And after 8 long years of waiting, we’re finally getting an Nvidia-powered self-driving car in the 2025 Mecedes Benz CLA.<\/p>\n 2026-01-06T00:04:36.765Z \n (Image credit: Future)<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n It wasn’t without resistance, though, as Huang went head to head with technical difficulties during the presentation – nothing major, just some presentation malfunctions.<\/p>\n I’ll break down the key points here.<\/p>\n
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