Nvidia’s CEO announced new AI products and partnerships at CES in Las Vegas. Nvidia’s new chip is targeted at the gaming, robotics, and self-driving car industries. Partnerships with Toyota and others highlight Nvidia’s AI expansion in self-driving technology.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a series of new products and partnerships on Monday, extending the company’s leadership in artificial intelligence to the rest of the industry.
In his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Huang unveiled new chips and partnerships in robotics, self-driving cars, and agent AI.
Ahead of the speech, Nvidia’s stock had risen 5% on Monday, nearing an all-time high. Shares of Asian suppliers to Nvidia rose on Tuesday, with Tokyo Electron up 11% and Disco Corp up more than 7%. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which makes Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, rose as much as 3%.
Below are some of Nvidia’s most important announcements from Huang’s talk.
New GeForce 50 Series Cards
Targeting Nvidia gaming users, Huang announced a series of new consumer graphics processing units for gamers, creators, and developers. Until 2022, gaming was the company’s biggest source of revenue, but now it’s data centers.
This chip uses artificial intelligence to create high-quality, lifelike images in video game scenes.
“The result is stunningly beautiful images that are only possible when using AI to learn textures,” Huang said in his keynote.
He said GPU prices start at $549, with a $1,999 flagship version expected to be available later this month.
autonomous vehicle partnership
Huang announced a partnership with Japanese automaker Toyota, joining its long list of customers in the self-driving car industry.
Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, plans to build its next generation of cars with Nvidia hardware and software. These new cars are equipped with Nvidia’s DriveOS operating system, which Huang says has “the highest standards of functional safety.”
Following Hwang’s announcement, Tokyo-listed Toyota shares rose nearly 4%.
“This is going to be a huge industry,” Huang said of self-driving cars. “I predict this will probably be the first multi-trillion dollar robotics industry.”
Nvidia said Aurora and Continental have also joined the list of companies leveraging Nvidia’s computing and AI to build consumer and commercial vehicle fleets.
Bringing AI to Windows computers
Huang said the company is bringing AI to personal computers, starting with Windows 11 PCs with Windows Subsystem for Linux.
“If we could figure out how to turn a Windows PC into a world-class AI PC, that would be absolutely amazing,” he said.
An Nvidia product called NIM microservices allows you to download and run a variety of models on your PC, including animation, language, and voice models, Huang said.
The company did not provide details on the release date of the laptop for developers and engineers. Nvidia has long sold gaming laptops.
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desktop computer
Nvidia also announced a desktop called Project Digits that connects AI researchers, data scientists, and students to the company’s Grace Blackwell platform.
It will have hardware that can run large-scale AI models that cannot normally be handled by today’s laptops.
“This is an AI supercomputer. It runs the entire Nvidia AI stack,” Huang said.
The Nvidia CEO also announced projects focused on building physical AI, such as humanoid robots and AI agents for enterprises. AI agents are a major focus for Big Tech companies, breaking down tasks into smaller steps, each working on a specific task to achieve a broader objective.
Huang has previously said that Nvidia also wants to become a 50,000-employee company with 100 million AI assistants. The CEO said he interacts with AI agents himself, and that Nvidia already uses them for cybersecurity, chip design, and software engineering.
