Huang Renxun CES 2026 Speech: The World's First "Thinking" Autonomous Driving AI is Here!

In the keynote at CES 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang sent a clear signal: autonomous driving is entering a new phase. NVIDIA officially announced Alpamayo, an end-to-end trained autonomous driving AI system. Its core change is not about “driving more steadily,” but about “beginning to think.”

Unlike traditional autonomous driving systems, Alpamayo not only receives sensor data and controls the steering wheel, brakes, and acceleration but also performs reasoning before taking action, clearly indicating what it will do next, why it is doing so, and the corresponding driving trajectory. This means that autonomous driving is moving from a black-box execution to a new stage with explainable decision-making capabilities.

Alpamayo is trained using a large amount of real driving data, human demonstration driving, and synthetic data generated by Cosmos. This release marks a critical turning point for autonomous driving technology, transitioning from “perception and control” to “thinking and decision-making.”