NVIDIA’s Alpamayo 1 signals new push into self-driving software

NVIDIA marked a major expansion of its ambitions in autonomous driving at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, unveiling Alpamayo 1, its flagship artificial intelligence model designed to power next-generation self-driving vehicles. The announcement underscores NVIDIA’s shift beyond its traditional role as a chipmaker, positioning the company as a serious software player in the fast-evolving mobility and autonomous vehicle ecosystem. Alpamayo 1 is built on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) technology, an emerging AI approach that allows vehicles to interpret visual inputs from cameras, understand context using language-based reasoning, and translate that understanding into driving actions.

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