India, Jan. 7 -- Tesla (TSLA) chief executive Elon Musk has downplayed the competitive impact of Nvidia's newly unveiled autonomous driving models, saying it could take five or six years before they pose meaningful pressure on Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system.

The comments followed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's CES announcement of Alpamayo, a new family of open AI models designed to support autonomous vehicle development. Responding on X, Musk argued that while Nvidia and others may reach high baseline performance quickly, solving the remaining edge cases that make self-driving safer than humans will be far more difficult and time-consuming.

Musk added that most legacy automakers are still years away from integrating custom cam...