Nvidia opens up Alpamayo 2, a driving model that reasons out loud

Nvidia has released Alpamayo 2 Super, an open AI model for Level 4 self-driving cars that not only plans routes but provides an interpretable chain of reasoning behind its decisions, aiming to improve trust and regulatory acceptance. The model is open-sourced for commercial use, designed as a large teacher model to be distilled into smaller versions running on Nvidia's DRIVE chips, supporting robotaxi services including Uber's Munich operations.

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