NVIDIA opens Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial autonomous driving

NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super is now available for commercial use on Hugging Face as part of the company’s Alpamayo family of open reasoning models for autonomous driving. Built on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and post-trained with reinforcement learning, the model is designed to help robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles handle rare, complex driving situations that require reasoning beyond object detection and motion prediction.

The model is released under OpenMDW‑1.1, the Linux Foundation’s permissive license for open AI model distributions. The license covers fine-tuning, derivative models and commercial redistribution, giving AV developers, automakers, truckmakers and suppliers a path to adapt Alpamayo to proprietary data, driving policies and deployment plans while retaining control of data and infrastructure.

Alpamayo 2 Super ranks first on LingoQA among nearly 40 models evaluated, and NVIDIA testing using the Lingo‑Judge metric found it outperformed Qwen2.5‑VL 72B by 17.0 points, Gemini 2.5 Pro by 15.1 points and GPT‑4o by 23.2 points. It offers 3x the scale of the 10‑billion‑parameter NVIDIA Alpamayo 1.5 and Alpamayo 1 models, and reasons over full-surround camera coverage for 360‑degree context.

For each scenario, Alpamayo 2 Super can generate planned trajectories, chain-of-causation traces, meta-actions, reasoning auto-labels and visual question answering responses with 2D visual grounding. NVIDIA says the model can support safety-validation workflows, proprietary fleet autolabeling, scene understanding, model critiquing and knowledge distillation within a broader open ecosystem that includes AlpaSim, AlpaGym, Physical AI Open Datasets and training recipes.