During the CES 2025 keynote, Nvidia announced the development of an AI supercomputer and AI for training robots and cars.

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Nvidia reveals new AI supercomputer, technology to train robots

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The world’s second most valuable company showed off a slew of new products Monday, Jan. 6, at the world’s preeminent technology trade show. Nvidia unveiled artificial intelligence (AI) that trains robots and cars, new ultrapowerful gaming chips and its first-ever desktop computer at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.

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During the company’s highly anticipated keynote address, CEO Jensen Huang showed off its new Cosmos foundation models, which are capable of creating photorealistic videos to train robots and self-driving technology.

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“It is trained on 20 million hours of video,” Huang said of Nvidia Cosmos. “The 20 million hours of video focuses on physical dynamic things. It’s really about teaching the AI, not about generating creative content, but teaching the AI to understand the physical world.”

Nvidia’s new Cosmos foundation models

Cosmos can generate video that obeys the laws of physics. Nvidia said this would make it much less expensive to train systems like self-driving models, which, today, require putting cars on the road to gather video.

Nvidia also unveiled its RTX 50 series of gaming chips that use its “Blackwell” AI technology. The new line of chips looks to provide video games with even more lifelike graphics. They will range in price from $549 to $1,999. The top-of-the-line Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) will be released at the end of January.

Huang pointed out that the lower-end GPUs, priced at $549, will have the power of the previous generation’s top-of-the-line 4090 chips, which retail for at least $1,599.

Backbone of the AI revolution

Nvidia’s GeForce GPUs have been the backbone of the AI revolution in recent years. The massive demand for the chips propelled Nvidia to compete with Apple for the top spot as the world’s most valuable company. Since the start of 2023, Nvidia’s stock price has surged more than 850%.

“We used GeForce to enable artificial intelligence, and now artificial intelligence is revolutionizing GeForce,” Huang said Monday.

Nvidia also announced its first-ever desktop computer called Project DIGITS. The computer isn’t a gaming machine but rather a workstation designed for computer programmers. The machine will use the same chips that power its enterprise data center processors. The machines will let developers test their AI systems more efficiently, essentially operating as an out-of-the-box supercomputer.

“This is an AI supercomputer,” Huang said of Project DIGITS. “It runs the entire Nvidia AI stack. All of Nvidia software runs on this.”

Meanwhile, Huang announced a partnership with Toyota to use the company’s Orin chips and automotive operating system to operate its driver assistance products. The company did not announce which vehicle models would feature its hardware.

Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, CES 2025, Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, Semiconductor Chips, Toyota

Simone Del Rosario:

Nvidia is leading the way in Vegas this week, unveiling a slew of products it hopes will propel it to the most valuable and impactful company in the world.

In fact, Nvidia’s stock briefly hit a record high after CEO Jensen Huang’s speech.

Jensen Huang:
“And so this is the NVIDIA cosmos.”

Simone Del Rosario:

During Nvidia’s keynote at CES 2025, the world’s biggest tech trade show, the AI juggernaut unveiled a system it says will be used to generate lifelike videos to train robots.

Jensen Huang:

The robotic system could be a factory. The robotic system could be a car. It could be a robot.

Simone Del Rosario:

Take, for instance, training self-driving models. That requires gathering tons of video of cars on the road. Huang says it’ll make it much cheaper train systems. But that’s just the start.

Jensen Huang:

Here it is our brand new, GeForce RTX 50 series, Blackwell architecture. The GPU is just a beast.

Simone Del Rosario:

Graphics Processing Units or GPUs have been the backbone of Nvidia’s business. The chips are used to render incredible imagery in video games. More recently, Nvidia’s GPUs have powered the AI revolution.

Jensen Huang:

Machine learning has changed how every application is going to be built, how computing will be done, and the possibilities beyond, well, GPUs, GeForce, in a lot of ways, all of this with AI is the house that GeForce built. GeForce enabled AI to reach the masses, and now AI is coming home to GeForce.

Simone Del Rosario:

The massive demand for Nvidia’s chips propelled them to a back-and-forth with Apple for the title of world’s most valuable company. Since the start of 2023, Nvidia’s stock price has surged more than 850%.

Good news for everyday gamers. With all things tech, things get cheaper over time. Huang says the lowest-end GPU in the new lineup, the RTX 5070, will retail at $549. But it’ll boast the power of the RTX 4090, the highest-end card in the previous generation, which costs at least $1,599.

Jensen Huang:

This is Nvidia’s latest AI supercomputer and and it’s finally called Project digits right now.

Simone Del Rosario:

And now for Nvidia’s first-ever desktop computer, Project DIGITS. It isn’t for those gamers clamouring for a graphics card. Instead, it’s a workstation designed for computer programs. It uses the same chips the company sells for data centers and it’ll let developers test AI systems more efficiently.

As Huang puts it, instead of building a bespoke supercomputer, this will be more of a plug and play experience as AI development becomes more and more accessible. Move over, chatGPT.

Meanwhile, the company announced a partnership with Toyota, which will use its chips to operate driver assistance products. Before you race off to the dealership, Nvidia left out the vehicle models that would feature its technology.

Toyota, by the way, is the largest car manufacturer in the world.

For Straight Arrow News, I’m Simone Del Rosario