Nvidia has unveiled Alpamayo, a new AI suite it says could make autonomous vehicles “drive like humans” by reasoning through complex traffic scenarios.

Announced at CES 2026, the system shifts self-driving from rule-based automation to what Nvidia calls “reasoning-based autonomy.”

CEO Jensen Huang described Alpamayo as “the world’s first thinking model for autonomous driving,” adding that cars will “think as you would.”

The suite includes a 10-billion-parameter vision-language-action model, simulation tools, and large open datasets.

Nvidia is targeting early integrations in early 2026, with robotaxi testing expected in 2027, though scepticism around safety and regulation remains.