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Nvidia launches new video game graphics chips at CES
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CEO announces AI modeling technology to accelerate robot development
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Automotive sector revenue to reach $5 billion in fiscal 2026
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AI to better train robots and cars as well as new gaming chips dominated Nvidia NVDA.O Chief Executive Jensen Huang’s speech at the CES 2025 conference on Monday, as the second-most valuable company to the world exposed its potential to develop its activities.
Nvidia introduced what it calls Cosmos “foundation” models, which generate photorealistic videos that can be used to train robots and self-driving cars at a much lower cost than conventional data.
By creating what the tech industry calls “synthetic” training data, models can help robots and cars understand the physical world, in the same way that large language models help chatbots generate responses in natural language.
Users will be able to give Cosmos a textual description that can be used to generate videos of a world that obeys the laws of physics.
This method promises to be much less expensive than data collection as it is practiced today. To train self-driving cars, for example, companies have fleets of vehicles that roam the streets collecting data, and humanoid robots are often trained by asking real humans to repeat tasks over and over again.
Mr. Huang, however, clarified that the Cosmos models will need much more data before reaching their “ChatGPT moment.”
Cosmos will be made available under an “open license”, similar to the Meta Platforms META.O Llama3 language models that have become widely used in the technology industry.
“We really hope that (Cosmos) will do for the world of robotics and industrial AI what Lama3 did for enterprise AI,” Huang said.
The new gaming chips use Nvidia’s “Blackwell” AI technology to give video games movie-like graphics, particularly in an area known as “shaders,” which can help images like ‘a ceramic teapot to appear more realistic by adding imperfections and fingerprint stains to its surface.
The new chips also feature artificial intelligence technology that helps game developers create more accurate human faces, an area where gamers are likely to notice even slightly unrealistic features. The chips, which Nvidia calls the RTX 50 series, will sell for between $549 and $1,999, with higher models arriving on January 30 and lower models in February.
Nvidia said its $549 mid-range gaming chips will match the company’s previous flagship chip, the RTX 4090, which sold for $1,600.
Nvidia also said that Toyota Motor 7203.T will use its Orin chips and automotive operating system to implement advanced driver assistance across multiple models. Nvidia did not provide details on these models.
Huang expects automotive hardware and software revenue to reach $5 billion in fiscal 2026, up from $4 billion expected this year.
CES 2025, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, runs January 7-10 in Las Vegas and is used to showcase products ranging from new automotive technology to quirky gadgets, as well as to show off new ways to use artificial intelligence.
Nvidia’s stock closed at a record high of $149.43 on Monday, bringing its value to $3.66 trillion and making it the world’s second most valuable publicly traded company, behind Apple AAPL.O .
