Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang launched the Alpamayo AI platform at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. It equips autonomous vehicles with human-like reasoning for rare events and complex roads.
“Alpamayo brings reasoning to autonomous vehicles, allowing them to think through rare scenarios, drive safely in complex environments, and explain their driving decisions,” Huang said.
Nvidia is producing a driverless Mercedes-Benz CLA with the German firm. The electric model launches in the U.S. soon, then Europe and Asia.
A demo video showed the AI navigating San Francisco streets smoothly, with a passenger’s hands off the wheel.
“It drives so naturally because it learned directly from human demonstrators,” Huang noted. “But in every single scenario… it tells you what it’s going to do, and it reasons about what it’s about to do.”
“Our vision is that someday, every single car, every single truck, will be autonomous,” Huang told attendees.
Analysts see it bolstering Nvidia’s lead in physical AI.
“NVIDIA’s pivot toward AI at scale and AI systems as differentiators will help keep it way ahead of rivals,” said PP Foresight’s Paolo Pescatore.
Nvidia shares rose 2% after hours. The firm tops $4.5T in market value.
Rubin chips enter production this year, promising better efficiency. Nvidia plans 2027 robotaxis too.
“Well that’s just exactly what Tesla is doing,” Elon Musk posted. “What they will find is that it’s easy to get to 99% and then super hard to solve the long tail of the distribution.”