Nvidia releases open Alpamayo-R1 self-driving model and expands open AI toolset at NeurIPS
Summary
Nvidia announced Alpamayo-R1, an open, industry-scale vision‑language‑action model for autonomous driving that uses chain‑of‑thought reasoning to explain and plan its driving decisions, along with new open models and datasets for speech and AI safety. The company is releasing Alpamayo-R1, evaluation tools and parts of the training data on GitHub and Hugging Face, positioning its open ecosystem (including Nemotron and Cosmos world foundation models) as a foundation for research and for partners such as AV developers and robotics firms building physical AI systems.
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