NVIDIA Releases Alpamayo 2 Super: A 34B Open Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Driving Under OpenMDW-1.1
NVIDIA has released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B-parameter vision-language-action (VLA) model for autonomous driving, under an open commercial license. The stated design target is the long-tail events: rare, multi-agent situations that conventional detection-and-prediction stacks handle poorly. The model pairs a 32B VLM backbone, built on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and post-trained with reinforcement learning, with a 2.3B diffusion-based action decoder. From one pass over full-surround camera vi
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34-billion-parameter model designed to help autonomous vehicles handle rare driving situations by processing camera video and outputting planned trajectories along with explanations of its decisions. The model is available under an open commercial license, meaning developers can use it, modify it, and redistribute it without additional permission. What makes this release operationally significant is that it produces five outputs from a single analysis: a trajectory, a causal explanation of the driving decision, a meta-action label, auto-generated training labels, and visual question answering with location grounding, allowing developers to understand and validate how the model reaches its driving choices.
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