NVIDIA Unveils Open-Source Alpamayo AI Models to Accelerate Autonomous Vehicle Development

Jan 06, 2026
NVIDIA Newsroom
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Summary

NVIDIA launches Alpamayo, an open-source AI ecosystem featuring a 10-billion-parameter reasoning model, simulation framework, and 1,700+ hours of driving data to help companies like JLR, Lucid Motors, and Uber develop level 4 autonomous vehicles capable of handling complex driving scenarios.

Key Points

  • NVIDIA unveils the Alpamayo family of open-source AI models and tools designed to accelerate safe, reasoning-based autonomous vehicle development, featuring the industry's first chain-of-thought reasoning vision language action model
  • The Alpamayo ecosystem includes three components: Alpamayo 1 (a 10-billion-parameter model), AlpaSim (open-source simulation framework), and Physical AI Open Datasets containing 1,700+ hours of driving data across diverse geographies
  • Major mobility companies including JLR, Lucid Motors, and Uber express support for Alpamayo to help develop level 4 autonomous vehicles that can reason through rare and complex driving scenarios

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