Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang opened CES 2025 with a keynote outlining the company’s AI ambitions for consumer and enterprise users for the coming year. Huang introduced a series of new software technologies designed to train humanoid robots and support a variety of AI applications.

The company also announced new gaming hardware, including the high-priced GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card for desktop PCs worth $1,999.

Huang covered many topics in his speech, but these are the key takeaways from the event.

Nvidia has a new AI super chip. No, it’s not the successor to the company’s latest Blackwell chip, which the company unveiled at its GTC 2024 conference last March. This is a small version of its powerful GB200 platform.

Called GB10, the chip is based on the GB200, which customers like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Tesla are snapping up in droves. But while the GB200 combines two Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) with one of Nvidia’s Grace central processing units (CPUs), the GB10 combines a Blackwell GPU with a Grace CPU.

“This little thing here is in full production,” Huang said during the keynote. “We expect this computer to be available in May.”

Nvidia is also not promoting the GB10 as a data center platform. Instead, the company says it will be available in a desktop it’s calling Project DIGITS. Project DIGITS combines the GB10 with 128GB of unified memory and 4TB of storage to create an AI computing system that sits on your desk.

In addition to its new chip and desktop, Nvidia unveiled its new Cosmos platform for developing physical AI systems such as robots and self-driving vehicles. The platform uses World Foundation Models (WFMs), which are AI models that simulate real-world conditions.

The idea is that Cosmos will help companies develop the software needed to power robots and self-driving cars by simulating different usage scenarios in a virtual environment, without deploying expensive robots or cars in the real world having to take the road.

Nvidia also provided information about its Isaac GROOT Blueprint software, which allows developers to teach humanoid robots to move in specific scenarios and situations via Apple’s Vision Pro headset.

As for vehicles, Nvidia said Toyota, Continental and Aurora are using its automotive technology suite to power their advanced driving and autonomous driving systems.

“The (autonomous vehicle) revolution has arrived,” Huang said during the keynote. “I expect this will probably be the first multi-trillion dollar robotics industry.”

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Nvidia owes its incredible performance last year to its early investments in AI technologies. But that doesn’t mean it’s leaving its gaming roots behind. The company on Monday introduced its new GeForce RTX 50 series of graphics cards for desktop and laptop computers.

The top-of-the-line RTX 5090 promises twice the performance of the last-generation range-topper, the RTX 4090, while Nvidia says its new entry-level RTX 5070 can match the RTX 4090’s gaming capabilities thanks to the evolution of its proprietary DLSS software. that can do things like rendering and generating frames for games using AI.

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