# Bad Influence story: NVIDIA releases Alpamayo 2 Edge open driving model and explains its onboard fit

Active · 2 articles · 2 sources · First reported 11-10 11:00. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/c835c211-0a81-43b2-a946-4d32c7dba74c

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Latest update (11-10 11:08): NVIDIA releases Alpamayo 2 Edge, an open model for real-time autonomous driving

Overview: NVIDIA releases Alpamayo 2 Edge, an open model for real-time autonomous driving, according to its X account. The company says the model plans driving paths, such as yielding to pedestrians or making room for an oncoming bus, and explains its decisions when needed. Developers can build on it to create autonomous vehicles that adapt to their own fleets.

In a separate NVIDIA Technical Blog post, the company says autonomous vehicle reasoning models must be reduced in size, keep useful reasoning, and be validated on target hardware to run within onboard compute and latency limits. The post names Alpamayo 2 Edge as its approach to this problem.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-10 11:08 · NVIDIA · [NVIDIA releases Alpamayo 2 Edge, an open model for real-time autonomous driving](https://badinfluence.news/items/liz980ccone7ddxl9all6rt8r)
2. 11-10 11:00 · NVIDIA Technical Blog (from the company) · [NVIDIA explains how to fit AV reasoning models within onboard compute limits](https://badinfluence.news/items/xgkq9mikfxa37ody25f3mz2n3)
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