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CES 2026: NVIDIA launches Alpamayo 1 for autonomous vehicles
At CES 2026, NVIDIA announced a significant expansion of its open AI ecosystem, unveiling new models, datasets, and development tools aimed at advancing AI applications beyond digital tasks into physical environments such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, and biomedical research. Central to the announcement was the introduction of Alpamayo, a family of open models and tools for reasoning-based autonomous driving. Alpamayo 1, an open vision language action model, enables vehicles to perceive their surroundings and explain their decisions. Complementing this, NVIDIA launched AlpaSim, an open-source simulation framework for training and evaluating autonomous systems, along with Physical AI Open Datasets containing over 1,700 hours of diverse driving data. NVIDIA’s expanded portfolio also includes open models across multiple domains: Nemotron for agentic AI, Cosmos for physical AI, Isaac GR00T for robotics, and Clara for healthcare and life sciences. The company released extensive datasets, including 10 trillion language tokens, 500,000 robotics trajectories, 455
roboticsautonomous-vehiclesAIsimulation-toolsphysical-AINVIDIAopen-datasetsNvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to ‘think like a human’
Nvidia has introduced Alpamayo, a new suite of open-source AI models, simulation tools, and datasets aimed at advancing autonomous vehicle (AV) capabilities by enabling them to reason through complex driving scenarios like humans. Central to this release is Alpamayo 1, a 10-billion-parameter vision language action (VLA) model that employs chain-of-thought reasoning to break down problems step-by-step and select the safest driving actions, even in rare or unfamiliar situations such as traffic light outages. This model’s code is publicly available on Hugging Face, allowing developers to fine-tune it for various applications, including simpler driving systems, auto-labeling video data, and decision evaluators. Nvidia also encourages combining real and synthetic data generated via its Cosmos platform to enhance training and testing. Alongside Alpamayo 1, Nvidia is releasing an extensive open dataset comprising over 1,700 hours of driving data from diverse geographies and conditions, focusing on rare and complex scenarios. To support
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The article from CleanTechnica discusses the current surge in interest around artificial intelligence (AI) and humanoid robots, highlighting both the enthusiasm and potential pitfalls of this technological pursuit. AI has become a widespread buzzword, with companies promoting AI-driven solutions for various tasks, from composting to innovative devices like an electric fork. Alongside AI, humanoid robots—machines designed to resemble humans but without human limitations—are gaining attention for their potential to perform tasks continuously without breaks or benefits, powered by rechargeable batteries. A significant focus of the article is on OpenAI’s emerging involvement in humanoid robotics. Although OpenAI has not officially announced a robotics project, it has been actively recruiting experts in robotics, tele-operation, and simulation, indicating a strategic move into this field. The company’s job postings suggest ambitions to develop general-purpose robots capable of operating in dynamic, real-world environments, possibly aiming for artificial general intelligence (AGI). This aligns with the view that achieving AGI may require robots that can
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