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NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super is designed to address rare, complex driving scenarios that conventional systems struggle to handle, offering real-time reasoning and decision-making for autonomous vehicles. The model is part of the Alpamayo family, which includes open models optimized for autonomous driving tasks. It is built on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and enhanced with reinforcement learning, providing advanced reasoning capabilities for developers. The model supports multimodal inputs, including full-surround camera coverage, enabling richer scene understanding and safer decision-making in challenging environments.

Alpamayo 2 Super is available under the OpenMDW-1.1 license, a permissive license from the Linux Foundation that allows commercial use, fine-tuning, and redistribution without additional permissions. This license applies to the entire Alpamayo model family, enabling AV developers, automakers, and suppliers to adapt the models to their specific data and deployment strategies. The open weights and permissive licensing reduce costs and accelerate development by eliminating the need to retrain foundational capabilities from scratch.

The model delivers frontier-scale reasoning in cloud-based workflows, generating high-quality reasoning traces, synthetic training data, and teacher outputs for model distillation. Alpamayo 2 Super outperforms other leading models on autonomous driving benchmarks, including LingoQA, where it surpassed Qwen2.5-VL 72B, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and GPT-4o in driving-centric reasoning tasks. Its 3x larger scale compared to earlier Alpamayo models improves generalization, particularly for rare, multi-agent interactions critical for safe autonomous driving.

Alpamayo 2 Super provides detailed reasoning outputs, including trajectory planning, chain-of-causation traces, and visual question answering with 2D grounding, enhancing transparency and validation for AV safety engineering. The model can also function as an auto-labeler, transforming raw driving clips into annotated training data and compressing annotation cycles. Its multitask capabilities support scene understanding, model critiquing, and knowledge distillation, simplifying tooling and accelerating iteration across the AV development stack.