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NVIDIA announced a new AI named Alpamayo, which it describes as the world's first thinking, reasoning, autonomous vehicle AI.
NVIDIA and Mercedes have a partnership focused on autonomous vehicle technology that has been active for the past five years.
NVIDIA builds a full technology stack for its autonomous driving platform and makes the entire stack open for its ecosystem partners.
NVIDIA is working with an expanding ecosystem of partners to build Level 4 autonomous driving systems and RoboTaxis.
NVIDIA's Alpamayo is a vision reasoning model, not just a vision model.
Vehicles equipped with NVIDIA's Alpamayo technology will be able to make decisions beyond following pre-programmed, rule-based instructions.
In a technology demonstration, 95% of the driving shown was controlled by NVIDIA's end-to-end autonomous driving model.
The Mercedes-Benz CLA was rated by NCAP as the world's safest car.