According to Sawyer Merritt, a Mercedes Nvidia self-driving R&D car was spotted in California as Alpamayo targets a US launch on the Mercedes CLA.

According to Sawyer Merritt, Mercedes will launch urban point to point automated driving in select German cities by year end, targeting early market lead.

According to Sawyer Merritt on X, Nvidia published a new 2.5-hour video showing CEO Jensen Huang riding across San Francisco in a Mercedes powered by Nvidia’s Alpamayo autonomous driving system, with Huang describing the experience as seamless and conversational. According to the video shared by Nvidia and cited by Merritt, the end-to-end drive showcases highway and urban navigation, positioning Alpamayo as a full-stack ADAS-to-AD platform candidate for automakers seeking scalable Level 2+ to Level 4 capabilities. As reported by Merritt, the real-world demo signals Nvidia’s push to convert GPU leadership into automotive design wins, creating opportunities for OEMs to license Alpamayo with Nvidia Drive compute and software toolchains for faster time-to-market. According to Merritt’s post, the smooth performance across varied city streets highlights potential reductions in driver workload and improved safety envelopes, a differentiator for premium brands integrating Nvidia Drive Orin or successor chips with Alpamayo software.