Overview
- Mercedes-Benz is reported as the initial adopter of Nvidia's Alpamayo, with the CLA slated for a phased rollout in the United States in the first quarter, Europe in the second quarter and Asia in the third quarter.
- Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo as an open-source autonomous driving software family featuring vision-language-action models, large reasoning models, simulation tools for rare scenarios and open datasets.
- The platform is expected to be available for automakers in Europe and Asia later this year, with Nvidia inviting customization and use of its trained models.
- Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung held a closed-door meeting with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, prompting industry speculation about Hyundai's potential adoption of Alpamayo.
- Huang expressed confidence in memory supply by noting Nvidia is the only current consumer of HBM4, and the company has previously outlined plans to deliver up to 260,000 GPUs to South Korea as part of broader AI build-outs.