NVIDIA Releases Alpamayo 2 Super: A 34B Open Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Driving Under OpenMDW-1.1
NVIDIA open-sources a 34B vision-language-action model for autonomous driving—permissive license, multimodal reasoning in one pass.
Why it matters
A major open-weight release combining vision, language, and action prediction in a single model under a commercial-friendly license signals NVIDIA's push to democratize the robotaxis stack and compete with closed proprietary systems.
The key facts
6 to knowModel: Alpamayo 2 Super, 34B parameters (32B Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner + 2.3B diffusion action decoder)
License: OpenMDW-1.1 (permissive; allows fine-tuning, derivatives, commercial redistribution)
Benchmark: 79.2 on LingoQA
Capabilities: trajectory generation, Chain-of-Causation traces, meta-actions, auto-labels, grounded VQA in single inference pass
Domain: autonomous driving and robotaxis
Release date: August 5, 2026
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Publisher excerpt: NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B vision-language-action model for autonomous driving, under OpenMDW-1.1 — a permissive license covering fine-tuning, derivatives and commercial redistribution. It pairs a 32B Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner backbone with a 2.3B diffusion action decoder, scores 79.2 on…