At the CES 2026 technology exhibition in Las Vegas, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presented the Alpamayo family of AI models, marking a new stage in the global race for autonomous technologies. The presentation sparked a public discussion between Huang and Elon Musk, highlighting a fundamental difference in the two giants' approaches to creating autonomous vehicles. This was reported by Bloomberg, writes UNN.
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Jensen Huang called the launch of Alpamayo "the ChatGPT moment for physical artificial intelligence." The main feature of the new model is its ability to "reason": the system not only recognizes objects but also explains its actions in natural language. For example, the AI can say: "I am braking because the brake lights ahead have come on, and the car may stop."
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Unlike Tesla, which develops a closed ecosystem, Nvidia made Alpamayo an open-source model, publishing it on the Hugging Face platform. This allows any car manufacturer to integrate and retrain the system for their own needs. The first partner was Mercedes-Benz, which plans to release an updated CLA model with Alpamayo technology on US roads by the end of 2026.
The main discrepancy lies in the architecture:
Tesla FSD is based on end-to-end neural networks that learn from gigantic arrays of real driver video data, creating a system that acts "instinctively."
Nvidia Alpamayo uses a hybrid approach: neural networks for perception and symbolic reasoning for decision-making, which makes the AI's logic transparent to regulators and users.
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