NVIDIA Announces Alpamayo Family of Open-Source AI Models and Tools to Accelerate Safe, Reasoning-Based Autonomous Vehicle Development
01/05/2026 04:49 PM • NVIDIA unveiled the Alpamayo family of open-source AI models, simulation tools, and datasets designed to advance autonomous vehicle development. The offering includes Alpamayo 1, a chain-of-thought reasoning vision language action (VLA) model with 10 billion parameters, AlpaSim simulation framework, and Physical AI Open Datasets containing 1,700+ hours of driving data. Major mobility companies including Lucid, JLR, and Uber have expressed support for the technology to accelerate level 4 autonomous vehicle deployment.
NVDA - NVIDIA is positioning itself as a leader in autonomous vehicle AI development through a comprehensive open-source ecosystem. The release of Alpamayo demonstrates technological innovation and industry leadership, with support from major automotive partners, strengthening NVIDIA's market position in the growing autonomous vehicle sector.
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