NVIDIA Relicenses the Whole Alpamayo Family Under OpenMDW-1.1 and Ships a 30B Open Driving Model for Commercial Use
NVIDIA made Alpamayo 2 Super — a ~30B open reasoning model for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles, 3x the scale of the 10B Alpamayo 1.5 — available for commercial use on 2026-08-04 under the Linux Foundation's permissive OpenMDW-1.1, which permits fine-tuning, derivative models, and commercial redistribution. NVIDIA says the license now applies across the entire Alpamayo family, moving it from R&D-only to production-ready on Hugging Face. It ranks first on the LingoQA driving-reasoning benchmark among ~40 models tested, beating Qwen2.5-VL 72B by 17.0 points, Gemini 2.5 Pro by 15.1, and GPT-4o by 23.2 on Lingo-Judge. The model emits trajectory plans, reasoning traces, and visual grounding together — the license change, not the benchmark, is the news.
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