On the ground, progress has been uneven. Tesla has expanded supervised FSD availability and has been testing dedicated Cybercab Robotaxi prototypes in Austin and California, with Musk saying a Model Y robotaxi drove him around Austin autonomously late last year.

The Tesla CEO said it would take years for the company's rivals to match its self-driving tech after Nvidia unveiled an FSD alternative.

Elon Musk said that the Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology won't be facing serious pressure from Nvidia's Alpamayo any time soon.

Nvidia's Alpamayo sells autonomy to automakers terrified of the software future—Tesla remains the only robotaxi-committed player.

CEO Jensen Huang has hailed the progress made by Tesla Inc.'s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, saying that the Elon Musk-led EV giant’s approach was “hard to criticize.” FSD Is State-Of-The-Art,

Nvidia claims that Alpamayo, which uses vision language action AI models, will allow self-driving cars to react to and reason through obstacles.

Analyst Andrew Percoco said Nvidia’s CES keynote put autonomous vehicles and humanoid robotics “front and center,” with its new Alpamayo system emerging as a major talking point.

Elon Musk says Nvidia’s new autonomous driving AI will not challenge Tesla’s Full Self-Driving technology for at least five to six years.

Nvidia introduces 'Alpamayo family' of AI models with goal of using reasoning-based vision language action models to enable 'humanlike thinking' in autonomous vehicle decision-making - Anadolu Ajansı

Musk said Nvidia autonomous driving won't compete with Tesla FSD for 5-6 years due to development timeline and legacy automaker integration delays.

CEO Elon Musk stated on Monday that the EV maker would have had to spend twice as much on buying AI hardware from Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) to train its systems if it weren’t for the company’s AI4 chipset.