Nvidia announced a new open‑source vision‑language model called Alpamayo‑R1 at the NeurIPS AI conference. Designed for autonomous‑driving research, the model builds on Nvidia’s Cosmos‑Reason architecture and aims to give self‑driving systems common‑sense reasoning. Nvidia also released a set of developer guides known as the Cosmos Cookbook, and made the model available on GitHub and Hugging Face. Executives highlighted the importance of physical AI for the next wave of robotics and autonomous technologies. Read more →