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Inside NVIDIA Alpamayo 1: Making AVs Reason

Inside NVIDIA Alpamayo 1: Making Autonomous Vehicles Reason

February 11, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. PT

Deep-Dive Into the Groundbreaking Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Model for AV

Join us to learn how the Alpamayo 1: 10B-parameter vision–language–action (VLA) model processes multi-camera video input to generate trajectories alongside reasoning traces, showing the logic behind each decision.

We'll cover key design choices, highlight main results, discuss future directions, and answer questions developers may have about applying it to their own use cases.

This livestream will showcase:

How chain-of-thought reasoning VLA models like Alpamayo 1 are designed and built.
Use cases: from powering end-to-end autonomous driving backbones to enabling reasoning-driven auto-labeling tools.
Opportunities and challenges in the development of reasoning models for physical AI.