NVIDIA open-sources on-vehicle inference model Alpamayo 2 Edge
11/11/2026 — 11/12, 01:19·2 sources (all)·2 reports (all)
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- NVIDIA has released Alpamayo 2 Edge, a vision-language-action model that runs in real time on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor and is trained through A…
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On 2026-11-11, NVIDIA Developer Blog published Alpamayo 2 Edge. The post states that autonomous vehicle developers need reasoning models that can operate within the compute and latency constraints of an onboard system, and that moving larger models into a vehicle calls for reducing model size, preserving useful reasoning, and validating performance on the target hardware. Alpamayo 2 Edge is presented as the answer to that need.
It is an adaptive reasoning vision-language-action (VLA) model designed for real-time operation on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor. Its foundation is the 2B Nemotron-based reasoning backbone of NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge, paired with a diffusion act...
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Latest turnNVIDIA has released Alpamayo 2 Edge, an open-source model trained in an RL loop for autonomous driving. It ingests inputs from six cameras and recent motion data, with optimized versions achieving significant speedups on edge hardware like AGX Thor.
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NVIDIA has released Alpamayo 2 Edge, an open-source model trained in an RL loop for autonomous driving. It ingests inputs from six cameras and recent motion data, with optimized versions achieving significant speedups on edge hardware like AGX Thor.
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NVIDIA introduced Alpamayo 2 Edge, an adaptive reasoning vision-language-action model built to run in real time on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor. It pairs a 2B Nemotron-based reasoning backbone from Cosmos 3 Edge with a diffusion action expert, fusing surround-camera views, temporal context and navigation inputs to produce Chain-of-Causation reasoning and driving trajectories, reasoning only when needed to save compute. Closed-loop RL in AlpaGym improved closed-loop driving performance by 48.9% over the best checkpoint.
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