Nvidia unveils 'reasoning' AI technology for self-driving cars
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Key Points:
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled Alpamayo, a new AI platform designed to enable self-driving cars to reason like humans, handle rare scenarios, and explain their driving decisions, at the CES conference in Las Vegas.
- Nvidia has partnered with Mercedes-Benz to produce a driverless version of the CLA, powered by Alpamayo technology, with plans to launch the vehicle in the US first, followed by Europe and Asia.
- Alpamayo is an open-source AI model available on Hugging Face, allowing researchers to access and retrain it freely, supporting Nvidia's vision of fully autonomous vehicles worldwide.
- Analysts view the announcement as a significant move for Nvidia from primarily a compute hardware provider to a comprehensive platform leader in physical AI systems,
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