NVIDIA Unveils Next-Gen AI and GPU Technologies at CES 2025
NVIDIA, the powerhouse in graphics and AI technology, made a splash at CES 2025 with a series of groundbreaking announcements that promise to revolutionize computing, gaming, artificial intelligence, and robotics. CEO Jensen Huang took center stage to unveil the company’s latest innovations, setting the stage for a new era of technological advancement.
RTX 50 Series: Redefining GPU Technology
The spotlight of NVIDIA’s presentation was the introduction of the RTX 50 Series, powered by the new Blackwell architecture.
This next-generation GPU family brings unprecedented performance and AI capabilities to both desktop and laptop computers.
The RTX 50 Series boasts impressive features, including the RTX 5070 offering 4090-level performance at just $549, and the RTX 5090 delivering twice the performance of the previous 4090 model.
The series integrates AI workloads with computer graphics processing, introducing innovations like neurot texture compression and neurom material shading.
NVIDIA has managed to pack these powerful GPUs into laptops, with the 5070 laptop model matching the performance of a desktop 4090 at a starting price of $1,299.
The future of computer graphics, according to Huang, is neuro rendering – the fusion of artificial intelligence and computer graphics.
AI Agents: The Future of Enterprise Computing
A significant portion of Huang’s presentation focused on agentic AI for enterprise applications. NVIDIA introduced three key components to help build agentic AI:
- NVIDIA Nims: These are AI microservices packaged in containers, optimized for various applications such as vision, language understanding, speech, animation, and digital biology. These models can run in any cloud environment, allowing easy integration into software packages to create AI agents for various enterprise applications.
- NVIDIA Nemo: This is a digital employee onboarding, training, and evaluation system, designed to streamline the process of integrating AI into enterprise workflows.
- Llama Neotron Language Models: NVIDIA announced a family of open-source language models based on Llama, fine-tuned for enterprise use. These models range from small, fast-response versions to ultra-large models capable of complex tasks. The Llama Neotron Suite includes models optimized for various enterprise applications, from quick interactions to complex problem-solving and even teacher models for training other AIs.
Huang emphasized that these AI models are designed to be versatile and adaptable, capable of running in any cloud environment.
This flexibility allows for easy integration into existing software packages, enabling the creation of AI agents for a wide range of enterprise applications, from customer service to complex data analysis.
NVIDIA Cosmos: Understanding the Physical World
Perhaps the most ambitious announcement was NVIDIA Cosmos, a world foundation model designed to understand the physical world.
Trained on 20 million hours of video, Cosmos focuses on physical dynamic things and has potential applications in robotics, synthetic data generation, and physical scenario prediction.
Cosmos features an auto-regressive model for real-time applications, a diffusion model for high-quality image generation, and a unique tokenizer that learns the vocabulary of the real world.
When connected to NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform, Cosmos can provide physically grounded, truth-conditioned AI generations, opening up new possibilities for simulation and prediction in various industries.
Autonomous Vehicles: Driving into the Future
NVIDIA reaffirmed its position in the autonomous vehicle (AV) market with several key developments. The company announced partnerships with major automakers, including Toyota, for next-generation AVs.
They also introduced Thor, a new robotics computer for vehicles with 20 times the processing power of its predecessor.
Importantly, NVIDIA’s Drive OS has been certified to ASIL D, the highest standard of functional safety for automobiles, making it the first software-defined, programmable AI computer to achieve this certification.
Project Digits: AI Supercomputing in a Compact Form
The keynote concluded with the unveiling of Project Digits, NVIDIA’s latest AI supercomputer.
This compact device, powered by the GB110 chip, promises to bring supercomputing capabilities to desktops.
Built in collaboration with MediaTek, Project Digits runs the entire NVIDIA AI stack and is expected to be available around May 2025.
The Future of Robotics
Huang also touched on the future of robotics, suggesting that the “ChatGPT moment” for general robotics is just around the corner.
NVIDIA’s Isaac platform aims to provide technology elements to the robotics industry to accelerate the development of general robotics.
NVIDIA’s CES 2025 presentation demonstrates the company’s continued leadership in GPU technology and AI innovation. With advancements spanning gaming, enterprise AI, autonomous vehicles, and supercomputing, NVIDIA is poised to shape the technological landscape for years to come.
The focus on AI agents and the introduction of Cosmos and Project Digits highlight NVIDIA’s commitment to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in AI and computing, promising a future where intelligent systems are more integrated into our daily lives than ever before.