NVIDIA's open-source Alpamayo 2 Edge VLA driving model lands in Autoware
drmapavone · x · 2026-11-12
Shinpei Kato announced that NVIDIA's Alpamayo 2 Edge VLA foundation model is now integrated into Autoware, with the full self-driving AI stack available open source — already running on Tokyo streets.
The alpamayo-autoware repo (Apache-2.0, 153 stars) ships a ROS 2 node: the model consumes 4 of 6 camera views, outputs its reasoning and a 6.4s trajectory prediction, TensorRT-accelerated on an RTX PRO 6000 and validated against replayed Autoware rosbags. Alpamayo 1.5 and 2 Super nodes are also included.
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