NVIDIA gives self-driving cars a chain of thought
NVIDIA just expanded its open-source footprint at NeurIPS with Alpamayo-R1, the first industry-scale open reasoning VLA model for autonomous driving. The model pairs chain-of-thought reasoning with path planning, helping vehicles handle messy edge cases like crowded intersections by breaking down situations step by step. Why it matters: bringing common-sense reasoning into physical AI could accelerate the path toward safe level 4 autonomy.