Nvidia launches Alpamayo automotive platform; new Rubin platform to be available this year.
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Nvidia unveiled the Alpamayo automotive platform at CES 2026, enabling cars to reason in real-world scenarios. The Rubin data center platform launches this year, offering improved performance and lower costs compared to Blackwell.
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According to Foresight News , NVIDIA unveiled its Alpamayo automotive platform at CES 2026. CEO Jensen Huang stated that the platform allows cars to "reason" in the real world. Potential users can adopt Alpamayo models and retrain them themselves. This free service aims to create vehicles capable of handling unexpected situations, such as traffic light malfunctions. The vehicle's onboard computer analyzes input from cameras and other sensors, breaking it down into a series of steps and deriving a solution.
Furthermore, its new Rubin data center products are set to launch this year, allowing customers to try the technology. All six Rubin chips have been delivered from manufacturing partners and passed several key tests, indicating that customer deployments are progressing as planned. The latest Rubin accelerator offers 3.5 times the training performance of its predecessor, Blackwell, and 5 times the speed of running AI software. Rubin-based systems will have lower operating costs than Blackwell-based systems.