Earlier this month, NVIDIA released the weights of Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial use, putting advanced driving intelligence within reach of more companies. The license permits use, modification, and commercial redistribution without a model-license fee.

I thought it might be a good time to reconnect with Tal Cohen, co-founder of Drive TLV, an innovation hub focused on smart mobility, and managing partner of Next Gear Ventures, whom I first spoke with for an episode of The Spiro Circle. We managed to speak briefly between our summer vacations (his had technically already started!), during which he called it “a big move that one huge gorilla is making.”

It comes back to a theory he has recently written about on his website: That once intelligence is abundant, it stops being anyone’s advantage.

When intelligence becomes abundant 

NVIDIA’s model aims to advance the AV ecosystem on two fronts, namely open commercial licensing and leading multitask capabilities for autonomous driving. Alpamayo 2 Super is not a production-ready driver. The challenge lies in who has the authority to let systems built from it act.

Cohen has a thesis for this, one he’s repeated to me since our initial conversation where I first learnt about his concept of the Habitat: Everyone can now get access to the brain, but almost nobody has built the foundation around it that decides when the brain is allowed to........

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