Morning Edition · Thursday, August 6, 2026Published at 1:47 AM EDT · New York
Nvidia Releases Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34-Billion-Parameter Driving Model, Under an Open Commercial Licence
The model pairs a 32-billion-parameter reasoning backbone with a 2.3-billion-parameter diffusion action head. It ships under the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW 1.1, which permits fine-tuning and commercial redistribution.
Nvidia has made Alpamayo 2 Super, a vision-language-action (VLA) model for autonomous driving, available for commercial use. The architecture is a 32-billion-parameter Cosmos 3 Super reasoning backbone with a 2.3-billion-parameter diffusion…
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