Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the “Alpamayo” platform at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, which is said to help autonomous vehicles think like humans.
Elchi.az reports that the company stated that this new technology will enable vehicles to think rarely, ensure safe driving in complex environments, and explain driving decisions.
Huang described this development as the “ChatGPT moment” of physical artificial intelligence. Alpamayo has been made available to researchers as an open-source model on the Hugging Face platform. This move is seen as part of Nvidia’s strategy to strengthen its leadership in the field of autonomous driving, not only in hardware but also in software and the ecosystem.
Strategic collaboration with Mercedes-Benz
The first driverless vehicle powered by this new Nvidia technology will be the CLA model developed in partnership with German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz. According to the announcement, the Mercedes-Benz CLA, which incorporates Nvidia’s fully autonomous driving software suite, will be available for sale in the USA in the first quarter of the year. The vehicle is scheduled to be launched in Europe in the second quarter and in Asia towards the end of the year. A video demonstrated on the streets of San Francisco showed the AI-powered vehicle moving naturally without human intervention and explaining its decisions in real-time. Analysts say this move is a direct competitor to Tesla’s autonomous driving software (Autopilot).
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