Jensen Huang Makes Case for Nvidia Self-Driving Solution
By Reuters | 05 Jan, 2026

Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas CEO Huang touted Nvidia's Alpamayo open-source self-driving software which, if widely adopted, would preempt some self-driving efforts while increasing demand for Nvidia AI chips.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday touted new software the company is releasing for autonomous cars in a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where the leader of the world's most valuable company was set to reveal product plans as it faces increasing competition from rivals as well as its own customers.

Huang highlighted new software that can help self-driving cars make decisions about which path to take - and leave a paper trail for engineers to use afterward. Nvidia showed research about software, called Alpamayo, late last year, with Huang saying on Monday it would be released more widely, along with the data used to train it so that automakers can make evaluations. 

"Not only do we open-source the models, we also open-source the data that we use to train those models, because only in that way can you truly trust how the models came to be," Huang said from a stage in Las Vegas.

Last month, Nvidia scooped up talent and chip technology from startup Groq, including executives who were instrumental in helping Alphabet's Google design its own AI chips. While Google is a major Nvidia customer, its own chips have emerged as one of Nvidia's biggest threats as Google works closely with Meta Platforms and others to chip away at Nvidia's AI stronghold.

At the same time, Nvidia is eager to show that its latest products can outperform older chips like the H200, which U.S. President Donald Trump has allowed to flow to China. Reuters has reported that the chip, which was the predecessor to Nvidia's current flagship "Blackwell" chip, is in high demand in China, which has alarmed China hawks across the U.S. political spectrum.

(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in Las Vegas; Editing by Matthew Lewis)