MVidia AI announcements at CES 2025 were highly anticipated as each year in Las Vegas, companies announce new technology. nVidia announcements were no exception with over ten major advances. NVidia is a chip manufacturer, but also provides software and expertise. New chips included.

• Laptop chip, bringing smallest supercomputer onto your desk
• Video chips for gaming and video and images
• Small AI chip for use in robots and autonomous cars
• Supercomputers for data centers
• Software for AI robots and autonomous driving
• Open source software
• Partnership with Toyota to develop

Details of Nvidia AI Announcements

1. Project DIGITS
   1. $3,000 personal AI supercomputer 1,000x the power of average laptop
   2. Nvidia GB10 – 200 billion parameter AI models.
   3. 1000x the power of average laptop
   4. GD 110 Available in May 2025
2. New RTX Blackwell RTX 5090 for $549
   1. Video Card 92 billion transistors
   2. 4,000 AI TOPS
   3. 380 RT TFLOPS
   4. 125 Shader TFLOPS
   5. 1.9 TB/s memory bandwidth
3. NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 – data center superchip with 72 Blackwell GPUs
   1. 72 blackwell GPUS 1.4 Exaflop1.4
   2. 130 trillion transistors
   3. 2,592 CPU cores
   4. 72 ConnectX-8 NICs
   5. 18 Bluefield DPUs
   6. 18 NVLink Swithes, 130 TB/s All to All
   7. Will compete strongly with Tesla’s Dojo chip and Cerebras
4. NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Blueprint – simulation workflow for synthetic motion generation
   • Captures valuable data from human demonstrations, enhancing the training of robot policies.
5. Robotaxis and self-driving will be the first multi-trillion dollar industry
   1. 80 million built each year
   2. Trillion miles driven globally
   3. Fully autonomous
   4. Likely be first multi trillion robotics
6. Thor Blackwell – Next generation processor for cars
   1. Thor 20 times the capacity of past computer
   2. Robotics computer
   3. Sensor information
   4. Hi resolution multiple 
   5. Could also be in robot
7. NVIDIA Cosmos – open source
   1. Chapt GPT for robotics
   2. open weight video 
   3. World Foundation Model
   4. Diffusion
   5. Advanced imaging
   6. Can turn limited thousands of miles into billions of virtual ones.
8. NVIDIA partnership with Toyota to make their next generation autonomous vehicles
   1. NVIDIA will supply Toyota with its cutting-edge SoC “DRIVE AGX Orin” and basic software “DriveOS”
   2. Toyota next vehicle
9. The IT department of every company is going to be the HR department of AI agents in the future.”
   1. HR department of robots
   2. Maintain and improve digital agents
10. NVIDIA, Aurora, and Continental announced a partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale by 2027
    1. Deploy driverless trucks at scale
    2. Powered by the next-generation NVIDIA DRIVE Thor system-on-a-chip (SoC).
    3. NVIDIA’s DRIVE Thor and DriveOS will be integrated into the Aurora Driver
    4.  SAE L4 autonomous driving system that Continental plans to mass-manufacture in 2027.
11. NVIDIA Blueprint for Video Search and Summarization
    • Dynamic AI features like chain-of-thought reasoning, task planning, and tool calling.
    • Allows developers to create visual agents.
12. Drive Hyperion
    • autonomous driving development platform
    • Car companies can use this to develop their own robotaxis
13. Blueprints for Agnentic AI
    • Tools for developers to create and deploy custom AI agents that excel in reasoning, planning, and taking action.

More Reading

1. Top 15 Nvidia announcements at CES 2025 https://x.com/heyshrutimishra/status/1876501300839637495
2. Aurora, Continental, and NVIDIA Partner to Deploy Driverless Trucks at Scale  https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aurora-continental-nvidia-partner-deploy-040000749.html
3. NVIDIA Project DIGITS A Grace Blackwell AI Supercomputer on your desk. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/
4. NVidia new graphics https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/geforce/news/rtx-50-series-graphics-cards-gpu-laptop-announcements/
5. Nvidia goes after Tesla FSD with Thor Blackwell AI car chip and 4D autonomous driving world simulator https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-goes-after-Tesla-FSD-with-Thor-Blackwell-AI-car-chip-and-4D-autonomous-driving-world-simulator.943117.0.html 
6. Nvidia signs largest car maker, Toyota, to use its self-driving chips https://www.zdnet.com/article/nvidia-signs-largest-car-maker-toyota-to-use-its-self-driving-tech/
7. Nvidia Cosmos https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/ai/cosmos/