NVIDIA hands the driving model away: Alpamayo 2 Super comes with a licence to sell what you build on it

NVIDIA has released Alpamayo 2 Super, a vision-language-action foundation model for autonomous vehicles, under the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW-1.1 licence — which permits fine-tuning, derivative models and commercial redistribution. For a category where driving stacks are usually the most closely guarded asset a company owns, that licence is the news as much as the model is. The model pairs a 32-billion-parameter Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner with a 2-billion-parameter diffusion action expert, 34 billion parameters in total according to the published model card. It does not only emit a trajectory: it also returns a chain-of-causation trace explaining why it chose that trajectory, a meta-action, automatic labels and grounded visual question answering. On the LingoQA driving-comprehension benchmark NVIDIA reports it first among roughly forty models, 17.0 points ahead of Qwen2.5-VL 72B and 15.1 ahead of Gemini 2.5 Pro. One caveat for readers comparing numbers: NVIDIA's own blog post rounds the model to "30 billion" parameters, while the model card and repository give 34 billion (32B plus 2B). We use the model-card figure.