By Tom Carter
Publication Date: 2026-01-07 11:59:00
Nvidia is challenging Tesla’s robotaxi dreams — but Elon Musk isn’t worried yet.
The Tesla CEO said it would take years for the company’s rivals to match its self-driving tech, after Nvidia unveiled an alternative suite of tools it said would help automakers “fast-track” robotaxi deployments.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the tech, called Alpamayo, at the CES conference on Monday and said it would bring “reasoning” to autonomous vehicles.
Responding to questions on X about what Alpamayo means for Tesla, Musk said that even with Nvidia’s help, it would take “several years” for automakers to advance their self-driving systems from being functional to safer than a human driver. He added that it would take several more years for automakers to add cameras and AI computers to their cars at scale.
“So this is maybe a competitive pressure on Tesla in 5 or 6 years, but probably longer,” Musk wrote in the Tuesday X post.
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