Learning Triton One Kernel at a Time: Softmax

Feb 19, 2026·
Ryan Pégoud
Ryan Pégoud
· 1 min read

Summary

Recently, Nvidia took the world of autonomous driving by storm with their new AlpamayoR1 architecture integrating a large Vision-Language Model as a causally-grounded reasoning backbone. This release, accompanied by a new large-scale dataset and a photo-realistic driving simulator, already positions the company as one of the main players in the field in 2026.

In this article, we’ll break down the AlpamayoR1 architecture, chain of causation reasoning, as well as the elaborate training procedure used to train the model.

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