Max A. Cerny and Stephen Nellis
(Reuters) – Artificial intelligence for better learning in robots and cars and new gaming chips dominated Nvidia (NASDAQ:) CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote speech at CES 2025 on Monday, as the world’s second-largest company touted its expansion potential of your business. business.
Nvidia has unveiled what it calls “baseline” Cosmos models that generate photorealistic video that can be used to train robots and self-driving cars at a much lower cost than using traditional data.
By creating what is known in the tech industry as “synthetic” training data, models can help robots and cars understand the physical world, much like large language models help chatbots generate natural language responses.
Users will be able to give Cosmos a text description that can be used to create a video of a world governed by the laws of physics.
This promises to be much cheaper than collecting data as is done today. For example, to train self-driving cars, companies create fleets of vehicles that drive on streets to collect data, and humanoid robots are often trained by having real people repeat tasks over and over again.
Huang, however, warned that Cosmos models will need a lot more data before the “ChatGPT moment” arrives.
Cosmos will be available under an “open license” similar to the Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:) 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” artificial intelligence technology to give video games movie-like graphics, especially in an area known as “shaders,” which can help images like a ceramic teapot look more realistic by adding imperfections and blemishes from fingerprints on its surface. .
The new chips also feature artificial intelligence technology that helps game developers create more accurate human faces, an area where gamers tend to notice even slightly unrealistic features. The chips, which Nvidia calls the RTX 50 series, will cost between $549 and $1,999, with the top models going on sale on January 30 and the lower-end 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 Toyota Motor (NYSE:) will use its Orin chips and in-vehicle operating system to bring advanced driver assistance to several models. He did not provide details about the models.
Huang expects automotive hardware and software revenue to be $5 billion in fiscal 2026, up from an expected $4 billion this year.
Juan also showed off a desktop computer called Project DIGITS. The computer will be equipped with the same chip that powers the company’s data center offerings, but paired with a central processing unit built with the help of Taiwanese company MediaTek.
The chips will come in a smaller package that individual software developers can use to quickly test their artificial intelligence systems.
The initial Project DIGITS system will not be aimed at the consumer—it will run Nvidia’s Linux-based operating system, which is primarily used by programmers rather than consumers, and will cost $3,000.
CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, will take place from January 7 to 10 in Las Vegas.
Nvidia shares closed at a record high of $149.43 on Monday, bringing their valuation to $3.66 trillion, making it the second-largest listed company in the world behind Apple (NASDAQ:).