Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at the 2026 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that they are collaborating with Mercedes-Benz to develop autonomous vehicles, and unveiled a new open-source AI model called Alpamayo designed specifically for training autonomous driving systems. Huang stated that the first Mercedes-Benz autonomous vehicle equipped with Nvidia chips will be on the road in the first quarter, calling it the company's "first full-stack project." These chips are intended to help vehicles handle rare scenarios and complex environments. This move positions Mercedes-Benz, leveraging Nvidia's hardware, as a potential competitor to Tesla in the autonomous vehicle field.