NVIDIA Opens Alpamayo 2 Super for Commercial AV Use, Touting 17-Point Edge Over Qwen 72B
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Updated · NVIDIA Blog · Aug 4
NVIDIA Opens Alpamayo 2 Super for Commercial AV Use, Touting 17-Point Edge Over Qwen 72B
3 articles · Updated · NVIDIA Blog · Aug 4
Summary
Alpamayo 2 Super is now commercially available for robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles under the OpenMDW-1.1 license, letting developers fine-tune, redistribute and deploy the model without extra permissions.
NVIDIA says the release targets long-tail driving events by combining multimodal reasoning with five outputs, including planned trajectories, meta-actions and chain-of-causation traces that make decisions easier to inspect and validate.
On performance, Alpamayo 2 Super ranked first on the LingoQA autonomous-driving benchmark and beat Qwen2.5-VL 72B by 17.0 points, Gemini 2.5 Pro by 15.1 and GPT-4o by 23.2 in NVIDIA testing.
At 3x the scale of NVIDIA's 10-billion-parameter Alpamayo 1.5 and 1 models, it is positioned for cloud-based reasoning and data generation, while distilled versions can be optimized for real-time in-vehicle inference.
NVIDIA said the broader open Alpamayo ecosystem has topped 500,000 Hugging Face downloads, as the company pushes a cloud-to-car workflow for safer and more transparent AV deployment.