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Carbon-Fibre Dust Puts Electric Compressor Design to the Test at Hexcel
Carbon-Fibre Dust Puts Electric Compressor Design to the Test at Hexcel Electrifying industrial equipment becomes a rather different engineering proposition when conductive carbon-fibre dust is circulating through the building. That was the problem facing composite materials manufacturer Hexcel when...
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Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub
Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub Bentley Systems has opened a new technology hub in Philadelphia’s Center City, bringing its infrastructure engineering software operation closer to the Cesium developer community it acquired in 2024. Located at the Curtis Center, th...
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Command Alkon Turns 50 as Heavy Materials Software Moves to the Cloud
Command Alkon Turns 50 as Heavy Materials Software Moves to the Cloud Five employees started building software for the ready-mix concrete industry in 1976. Fifty years later, Command Alkon says its systems sit behind more than 690,000 dispatched loads each day, track around 60,000 trucks and support...
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Why Heavy-Truck Stopping Distance Is a System, Not a Single Number
Why Heavy-Truck Stopping Distance Is a System, Not a Single Number Stopping distance is often discussed as if every truck has one fixed number attached to it. In practice, a safe stop depends on an entire system: the driver’s attention, vehicle speed, brake response, tire and brake condition,...
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Spotter AI Brings Intelligence Into Everyday Trucking Operations
Spotter AI Brings Intelligence Into Everyday Trucking Operations A dispatcher deciding where to send an empty truck, a recruiter trying to fill a driving position and a claims manager chasing a missing proof of delivery appear to be dealing with quite different problems. Increasingly, however, they...
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Commercial UAV Expo Winners Focus on the Practical Future of Drone Operations
Commercial UAV Expo Winners Focus on the Practical Future of Drone Operations Commercial drone technology has spent much of the past decade proving that aircraft can fly further, carry better sensors and automate increasingly complex missions. At Commercial UAV Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, three companie...
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Geo Connect Asia Takes Geospatial Engagement Across ASEAN Ahead of Singapore 2027
Geo Connect Asia Takes Geospatial Engagement Across ASEAN Ahead of Singapore 2027 Geo Connect Asia is extending its reach beyond Singapore with a programme of regional events intended to bring technology providers into direct contact with government agencies, infrastructure organisations and geospat...
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Volvo Electric Machines Put Nuremberg’s Zero-Emission Tender to the Test
Volvo Electric Machines Put Nuremberg’s Zero-Emission Tender to the Test Nuremberg has turned the demolition of a former nursery into an unusual test of municipal procurement. The German city required the Sauerbrey site in Westpark to be demolished without conventional combustion-powered machi...
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Construction Risk and Dispute Resolution in Focus at CCDRF 2026 Abu Dhabi
Construction Risk and Dispute Resolution in Focus at CCDRF 2026 Abu Dhabi The Construction Contracts & Dispute Resolution Forum 2026 will bring more than 300 construction, development and legal professionals to Abu Dhabi on 29 and 30 September, but the agenda says as much about the pressures sur...
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Tracking Infrastructure Stability From Space
Tracking Infrastructure Stability From Space Bridges, dams, and tunnels rarely fail without warning. They move first, often by fractions of an inch, long before a crack becomes visible to an inspector on foot. Satellite radar now makes that early movement measurable across entire assets and corridor...
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IGIC 2026 Tackles the Ground Beneath Saudi Arabia’s Mega Projects
IGIC 2026 Tackles the Ground Beneath Saudi Arabia’s Mega Projects Saudi Arabia’s construction programme presents an engineering problem long before concrete is poured or structural steel arrives on site. Beneath new airports, transport corridors, urban developments, tunnels and industria...
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Pasig River Digital Twin Builds a Shared Picture of Plastic Pollution
Pasig River Digital Twin Builds a Shared Picture of Plastic Pollution The Pasig River is only 27 kilometres long, yet it is estimated to carry around 63,000 tonnes of plastic into the ocean each year. Across Metro Manila, more than 48 tributaries feed into a waterway affected by dense development, s...
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Baku’s Transport Investment Sets the Stage for Road & Traffic 2026
Baku’s Transport Investment Sets the Stage for Road & Traffic 2026 Road & Traffic 2026 will open in Baku in October against an unusually busy backdrop of road, tunnel, public transport and urban mobility investment. The 14th Caspian International Road Infrastructure and Public Transpor...
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Senegal Expands Agricultural Road Network with $140m Financing
Senegal Expands Agricultural Road Network with $140m Financing Senegal is preparing another 275 kilometres of paved roads and laterite tracks through two agricultural corridors in the east of the country, extending a rural transport programme that has already constructed or upgraded 414 kilometres o...
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Magnetic Thermal Textile Targets Overheated Railway Tracks
Magnetic Thermal Textile Targets Overheated Railway Tracks Railway engineers in South Korea have demonstrated a removable thermal barrier that KRRI says reduced summer rail temperatures by as much as 10.9Β°C, without water, electrical power or permanent modification to the track. Developed by the Kor...
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Sovereign AI Brings Intelligence Back Inside Critical Infrastructure
Sovereign AI Brings Intelligence Back Inside Critical Infrastructure Artificial intelligence is beginning to acquire something it largely avoided during the first wave of generative AI adoption: a physical location. For governments, infrastructure operators and heavily regulated businesses, where an...
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Zeroth Bridge Takes the Humanoid Robot into Developer Territory
Zeroth Bridge Takes the Humanoid Robot into Developer Territory Zeroth has opened global bookings for Bridge, an 88 cm humanoid robot weighing about 13 kg, but the hardware may be the less interesting part of the launch. Alongside it comes OpenBridge, an open-source development environment intended...
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Forty Years of Cleaner Air Have Changed How Infrastructure Corrodes
Forty Years of Cleaner Air Have Changed How Infrastructure Corrodes At an industrial corrosion test site in Kopisty in the Czech Republic, researchers could scrape half a kilogram of rust from a single square metre of steel in 1987. Today, corrosion losses at industrial locations are typically betwe...
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Molten Salt Electrolysis Targets Americaβs Heavy Rare Earth Processing Gap
Molten Salt Electrolysis Targets Americaβs Heavy Rare Earth Processing Gap A research team at Case Western Reserve University is preparing to use molten salt electrolysis to extract dysprosium and terbium, two of the difficult heavy rare earth elements required for high-performance permanent magnets...
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Ouster and GeoCue Push Drone LiDAR Further Into Infrastructure Mapping
Ouster and GeoCue Push Drone LiDAR Further Into Infrastructure Mapping Drone surveying of power lines, transport corridors and major infrastructure is becoming an increasingly demanding sensing problem. Aircraft need to cover long distances efficiently while still capturing conductors, structural ed...
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CarPlay Moves Beyond the Car as Helios Expands No Roads Platform
CarPlay Moves Beyond the Car as Helios Expands No Roads Platform Helios Technologies has added Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capability to its No Roads platform, bringing the familiar smartphone interface into specialist vehicle displays designed for markets including marine, powersports, overlandi...
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The 80,000 Year Engineering Project to Alpha Centauri
The 80,000 Year Engineering Project to Alpha Centauri Launch before the end of 2029. Spend less than $15 million. Carry at least one kilogram. Get within one per cent of the distance to Alpha Centauri in no more than 80,000 years. Those are the four constraints behind the Fermi Explorer Mission, a n...
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Pegasus Lunar Rover Turns to LiDAR for Autonomous Moon Mobility
Pegasus Lunar Rover Turns to LiDAR for Autonomous Moon Mobility AEyeβs Apollo long-range lidar is heading for the Moon. Lunar Outpost has selected the solid-state sensor for Pegasus, the Lunar Terrain Vehicle being developed to carry Artemis astronauts across the Moonβs South Pole region. The multi-...
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Can Spherical Tokamaks Make Fusion Power More Affordable?
Can Spherical Tokamaks Make Fusion Power More Affordable? A 10.4-tonne magnet arriving on a flatbed truck might appear an unlikely symbol of compact engineering. Yet the central magnet bundle delivered to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in June 2026 sits at the heart of one of fusion energyβ...
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Factors That Influence the Lifespan of Construction Materials
Factors That Influence the Lifespan of Construction Materials Every building is designed with longevity in mind, but no material lasts forever without the right conditions. Whether it is natural stone, timber, concrete or brick, the lifespan of construction materials is shaped as much by design and...
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Why Growing Businesses Need a Smarter Approach to Company Vehicles
Why Growing Businesses Need a Smarter Approach to Company Vehicles A couple of company vehicles are easy enough to keep track of. Someone knows when the rego is due, another person remembers which van needs a service, and fuel receipts somehow make their way to accounts. Then the business grows. Sud...
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The Construction Marketing Playbook Has Changed
The Construction Marketing Playbook Has Changed New tools are giving ambitious specialist companies greater reach, intelligence and freedom to experiment, but established brands still begin with formidable advantages For decades, the marketing formula for an ambitious construction business was reaso...
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Construction AI Goes Deeper as Togal.AI Targets Trade-Specific Estimating
Construction AI Goes Deeper as Togal.AI Targets Trade-Specific Estimating Artificial intelligence has already become reasonably good at finding things on construction drawings. The more difficult problem begins after something has been found. A drywall estimator measuring a wall is not ultimately in...
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Raleigh Turns Drones and GeoAI into a Living Digital Twin of the City
Raleigh Turns Drones and GeoAI into a Living Digital Twin of the City Raleigh is building a digital representation of the city that is designed to change whenever the city itself does. Drone surveys of construction sites, infrastructure, storm damage and public spaces can be processed into new image...
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HKX Acquisition Takes MPS into Construction Equipment
HKX Acquisition Takes MPS into Construction Equipment Multi Parts Solutions has entered the construction equipment sector through the acquisition of HKX, bringing a specialist in excavator hydraulics and electronic control integration into a business previously concentrated on automotive and commerc...
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MAJOR Takes High-Vibration Screening into the Basalt Quarry at steinexpo
MAJOR Takes High-Vibration Screening into the Basalt Quarry at steinexpo Screening equipment rarely receives the attention given to crushers, excavators and loaders in a quarry, yet comparatively small changes at the screen deck can have consequences throughout the production process. Blocked apertu...
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Volvo R70 Rigid Hauler Makes European Debut at Bettenfeld Quarry
Volvo R70 Rigid Hauler Makes European Debut at Bettenfeld Quarry Europe’s first Stage V Volvo R70 rigid hauler has entered service at SHF Steinbruchbetriebe’s Bettenfeld Quarry in Germany, where rigid haulers routinely accumulate between 25,000 and 35,000 operating hours. Built at Volvo...
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Mazavida Targets the Water Infrastructure Gap with Deployable Desalination
Mazavida Targets the Water Infrastructure Gap with Deployable Desalination Large desalination plants can take years to finance, permit, build and commission. Mazavida is approaching the problem from the other direction, developing containerised water-treatment and desalination systems intended to pu...
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Satellite Tolling Turns the European Road Network into a Digital Charging Platform
Satellite Tolling Turns the European Road Network into a Digital Charging Platform The Netherlands changed the way heavy goods vehicles pay to use its roads on 1 July 2026. The Eurovignette disappeared, kilometre-based charging began and every affected truck became part of a digital road-pricing sys...
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Making Existing Diesel Trucks Compatible with Electric Highways
Making Existing Diesel Trucks Compatible with Electric Highways Europe has spent years proving that heavy trucks can draw power from overhead lines while travelling at motorway speeds. Germany’s ELISA field trial ran from 2019 until the end of 2024, putting specially equipped trucks into real...
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β¬79.3m Financing Backs New Generation of European Aggregate Carriers
β¬79.3m Financing Backs New Generation of European Aggregate Carriers Germany’s KfW IPEX-Bank is providing β¬79.3 million to finance two 44,000-tonne self-unloading bulk carriers destined for one of Northern Europe’s most established construction-material supply chains. The vessels will be...
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Mountain Bike Trail Building Turns to On-Site Material Processing
Mountain Bike Trail Building Turns to On-Site Material Processing Mountain bike trails may be built for recreation, but beneath the berms, rollers and carefully shaped corners sits a surprisingly conventional earthworks problem. Material has to be excavated, graded, placed and compacted, while water...
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Seven Liebherr Cranes Coordinate Ulmβs B10 Bridge Reconstruction
Seven Liebherr Cranes Coordinate Ulmβs B10 Bridge Reconstruction Replacing a major road bridge above an operating railway is as much a problem of space and logistics as it is one of lifting capacity. In Ulm, Germany, seven Liebherr tower cranes are being assembled into a coordinated lifting system f...
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Allient Brings GaN Power Electronics to Professional Drone Propulsion
Allient Brings GaN Power Electronics to Professional Drone Propulsion Every gram and watt matters aboard a professional multirotor, making the electronic speed controller between the battery and propulsion motor a surprisingly consequential piece of hardware. Allient has now brought gallium nitride...
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PlantWorx 2027 Expands the Live Construction Equipment Format at the NEC
PlantWorx 2027 Expands the Live Construction Equipment Format at the NEC PlantWorx will arrive at the NEC Birmingham in June 2027 with a considerably larger canvas than previous editions, combining its established live machinery format with indoor exhibition halls, outdoor digging areas, a dedicated...
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Geo Week Expands Workforce Programme as Geospatial Skills Demand Grows
Geo Week Expands Workforce Programme as Geospatial Skills Demand Grows Geo Week is expanding its efforts to bring younger professionals into the geospatial sector, opening applications for its 2027 GEO Empower Event Scholarship alongside a broader workforce development programme connecting students,...
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Paving Expo 2026 Arrives as Brazil Accelerates Highway Investment
Paving Expo 2026 Arrives as Brazil Accelerates Highway Investment Brazil enters Paving Expo 2026 with a rather different road infrastructure market from the one exhibitors were addressing only a few years ago. The federal highway concession portfolio regulated by the National Land Transport Agency,...
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Singapore Puts AI Deployment at the Centre of IBEW 2026
Singapore Puts AI Deployment at the Centre of IBEW 2026 Singapore’s International Built Environment Week returns to Marina Bay Sands from 2 to 4 September with artificial intelligence occupying a much more practical position than the conference programmes of only a few years ago. The discussio...
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Africaβs Carbon Markets Move from Policy to Transactions
Africaβs Carbon Markets Move from Policy to Transactions Africa’s carbon market debate is beginning to move beyond whether the continent can become a significant supplier of carbon credits. The harder questions now concern which projects can secure authorisation, attract capital, survive incre...
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John Deere Advances Orchard Autonomy with Ouster Rev8 Lidar
John Deere Advances Orchard Autonomy with Ouster Rev8 Lidar Autonomous machinery has a relatively easy job when the world around it is open, predictable and accurately mapped. An orchard offers almost the opposite. Rows of trees create repetitive geometry and obstruct satellite signals. Branches, fo...
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Infopro Digital Automotive Builds a Data Platform for the Global Aftermarket
Infopro Digital Automotive Builds a Data Platform for the Global Aftermarket Infopro Digital Automotive will arrive at Automechanika Frankfurt in September with a considerably broader business than it took to previous editions. Acquisitions including Eucon, GiPA and Aurelis have added to an existing...
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Seoulβs Magok Living Lab Put Smart City Technology to the Test
Seoulβs Magok Living Lab Put Smart City Technology to the Test Smart cities tend to be described through infrastructure: sensors, communications networks, digital twins, autonomous systems and the data platforms connecting them. Seoulβs Magok District had much of that foundation when the city tried...
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Inside Georgia’s Work to Secure the Connected Highway
Inside Georgia’s Work to Secure the Connected Highway A remotely operated gate controlling access to an express lane looks like a piece of highway equipment. Behind it, however, sits something increasingly familiar from factories, power stations and water treatment plants: a programmable logic...
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AI Physics Pushes Engineering Simulation Towards a New Compute Model
AI Physics Pushes Engineering Simulation Towards a New Compute Model Engineering simulation is beginning to acquire a second workload alongside the computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis and other numerical models that have occupied high-performance computing systems for decades. Incr...
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OβHare Flyer Plans 15-Minute Chicago Airport Express on Existing Rail Corridors
OβHare Flyer Plans 15-Minute Chicago Airport Express on Existing Rail Corridors Chicago has spent more than two decades trying to find a convincing way of getting passengers between its downtown and OβHare International Airport considerably faster than the existing transport network allows. Its late...
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CECE Congress 2026 Brings Europeβs Construction Equipment Leaders to London
CECE Congress 2026 Brings Europeβs Construction Equipment Leaders to London More than 150 senior figures from Europeβs construction equipment industry will gather at IET Savoy Place in London from 27 to 29 October for CECE Congress 2026, bringing manufacturers, associations, economists and industry...
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BEX Asia 2026 Puts Practical AI and Robotics at the Centre of Construction Technology
BEX Asia 2026 Puts Practical AI and Robotics at the Centre of Construction Technology More than 200 exhibiting brands will gather at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore from 2 to 4 September for BEX Asia 2026, but one number gives a better indication of where the exhibition is heading: organisers expect a...
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South Africa Opens Freight Rail to Private Operators as Mining Demand Grows
South Africa Opens Freight Rail to Private Operators as Mining Demand Grows South Africa has allocated freight capacity of up to 24 million tonnes a year to 11 private train operating companies, putting one of the country’s most consequential logistics reforms onto the railway rather than leav...
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CMAS 2026 Puts Transactions at the Centre of Africaβs Carbon Markets
CMAS 2026 Puts Transactions at the Centre of Africaβs Carbon Markets Africa has no shortage of potential carbon projects. The more difficult task is turning forests, farms, waste streams, carbon removals and other climate interventions into credits that governments can authorise, investors will fina...
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Ritchie Bros. Takes Heavy Equipment Bidding Fully Mobile
Ritchie Bros. Takes Heavy Equipment Bidding Fully Mobile Buying a used excavator, truck or wheel loader at auction no longer necessarily requires a buyer to stop what they are doing, open a laptop and settle in front of a browser. Ritchie Bros. has redesigned its mobile application to bring the comp...
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Understanding How APIs Support Logistics Automation
Understanding How APIs Support Logistics Automation Modern logistics depends on information moving almost as efficiently as the freight itself. A single road shipment may involve an ERP platform, warehouse software, a transport management system and a carrier’s own technology. When these syste...
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When Construction Starts Learning
When Construction Starts Learning An excavator working to a 3D model can leave behind far more than the finished formation. Machine control records where it worked, while telematics can provide another history of utilisation, idling, operating hours and faults. Around it, survey flights measure chan...
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Mastenbroek Refines 20/15 Drainage Trencher for 2026
Mastenbroek Refines 20/15 Drainage Trencher for 2026 A machine first introduced in 1981 might seem an unlikely place to look for equipment development, but Mastenbroek’s latest 20/15 drainage trencher makes a good case for evolution rather than reinvention. The Lincolnshire manufacturer has up...
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Used Equipment Supply Tightens as European Buyer Demand Accelerates
Used Equipment Supply Tightens as European Buyer Demand Accelerates Demand for used tractor units across Europe rose 72% year-on-year during the second quarter of 2026 while the number advertised for sale fell by 26%. Few figures capture the current condition of Europe’s secondary equipment ma...
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NVIDIA Opens Alpamayo 2 Super for Commercial Autonomous Driving
NVIDIA Opens Alpamayo 2 Super for Commercial Autonomous Driving NVIDIA has made its 34-billion-parameter Alpamayo 2 Super autonomous-driving model available for commercial use, giving vehicle developers permission to fine-tune, modify and redistribute one of the company’s most capable reasonin...
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