Shamraiz | January 11, 2025
In a Las Vegas arena crowded with thousands, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave an extraordinary keynote presentation at CES 2025 that brought out many groundbreaking products, partnerships, and services in gaming, robotics, personal computing, and autonomous vehicles. Emphasis has been laid upon AI, leading to its complete integration into advanced technology areas.
Next-Generation Graphics Cards and AI Chips
And indeed, Nvidia went back to its gaming roots with the introduction of the GeForce RTX 50 Series of GPUs for all gamers, developers, and creators. These GPUs, based on Nvidia’s Blackwell AI next-generation chip, promise to unleash unprecedented AI-driven rendering capabilities in the market.
“Blackwell, the engine of AI, has finally come for PC gamers, developers, and creatives,” Huang said, stressing its importance as the most revolutionary computer graphics innovation since programmable shading was introduced 25 years ago. With Blackwell now in full production, the flagship RTX 5090 model will launch in January 2025 for $1,999, followed by the RTX 5070 in February for $549.
Revolutionizing Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles
Alongside, Nvidia released a range of AI models that it named “Cosmos.” Cosmos models can produce photorealistic video, which can be used for effective training of robots and autonomous systems in an extremely cost-efficient way. By utilizing the Omniverse from Nvidia—a platform for physics simulations—Cosmos can substitute some expensive methods like the real-world recording of roads or repeating the same procedures for humans who train robots.
At the heart of Nvidia’s innovation lies its collaboration with Toyota to design the next-generation autonomous vehicles and its collaboration with Aurora to power driverless shipping trucks. The two projects will be driven by Nvidia’s DriveOS, described by Huang as having the “highest standard of safety.” “I predict that this will likely be the first multi-trillion-dollar robotics industry,” he added. The company said its driverless trucks, powered by Nvidia’s hardware, are set to enter commercial deployment in April 2025.
AI-Powered Supercomputers for Developers
The keynote concluded with the introduction of Project DIGITS, a desktop computer aimed at developers and enthusiasts of generative AI. The system, which Huang priced at $3,000 and will launch in May, is powered by the new Blackwell chip, supports AI models with 200 billion parameters, and eliminates costly cloud infrastructure as the user is now allowed to run large-scale AI models directly from their desktop. It is said that users would experience unparalleled accessibility for AI experimentation at home.
