Jensen Huang NVIDIA CEO "First autonomous vehicle with Mercedes-Benz to launch in Q1" [CES 2026]
Summary
- NVIDIA said it will release a new autonomous vehicle developed with Mercedes-Benz to the U.S. market in Q1.
- CEO Huang unveiled the autonomous driving AI model 'Alpamayo', explaining that the model was trained end-to-end.
- NVIDIA said it has Level 4 autonomous driving implementation capabilities and the related manufacturing ecosystem.
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, said he will release a new autonomous vehicle developed with the German automaker Mercedes-Benz in Q1 of this year.
On the 5th (local time), at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Las Vegas, a day before the opening of CES 2026, Huang delivered a speech at "NVIDIA Live," saying, "NVIDIA will launch its first autonomous vehicle," and explained, "The United States is scheduled for Q1, Europe for Q2, and Asia for Q3–Q4."
He also unveiled the autonomous driving AI model 'Alpamayo.' He said, "Alpamayo was trained end-to-end (end-to-end) from camera input to output."
NVIDIA added that it currently possesses the driving capabilities at Level 4 (L4: a situation where full autonomous driving is possible in limited areas) required to operate robotaxis, as well as the manufacturing ecosystem to realize this in the real world.
Huang said, "In the future, all cars will move on their own driven by AI," and emphasized, "I am confident that autonomous vehicles are the largest physical AI industry."
Las Vegas=Park Ui-myeong / Kang Haeryeong reporters hr.kang@hankyung.com
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