Inside NVIDIA Alpamayo 1: Making Autonomous Vehicles Reason

In this livestream, we’ll take a deep dive into Alpamayo 1 — a 10B-parameter, chain-of-thought reasoning VLA model that processes multi-camera video and outputs both driving trajectories and reasoning traces, revealing the logic behind each decision. We’ll cover key design choices, highlight main results, and discuss future directions, as well as answer questions developers may have about applying it to their own use cases.

Key takeaways:

• Understand how chain-of-thought reasoning VLA models like Alpamayo 1 are designed and built.
• Explore how Alpamayo 1 can be applied across use cases, from powering end-to-end autonomous driving backbones to enabling reasoning-driven auto-labeling tools.
• Learn about opportunities and challenges in the development of reasoning models for Physical AI.