Running AV Reasoning Models Within Onboard Compute and Latency Limits

NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Edge is an adaptive reasoning vision-language-action model designed for real-time operation on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor. It is built on the 2B Nemotron-based reasoning backbone of NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge and paired with a diffusion action expert. Alpamayo 2 Edge was post-trained with closed-loop reinforcement learning in NVIDIA AlpaGym, improving closed-loop driving performance by 48.9%.