The Jensen Huang show
The Nvidia CEO used his CES keynote to detail the next phase of the company's AI-coupled development. But will it be enough to keep customers happy and the share price soaring?
The Consumer Electronics Show — the yearly bacchanal for techies, marketers and media eager to rub shoulders and gawk at overengineered gadgets, laptops and concept cars — has kicked off once again in Las Vegas.
Firing the starting gun today was Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, whose keynote continued his shock and awe campaign aimed at keeping the rest of the tech industry paying the necessary tribute to his company.
Nvidia’s now-famous bet on GPUs as engines for general-purpose accelerated computing, and the explosion of AI, is rightly regarded as one of the most astute decisions in business history. It has propelled the chipmaker from niche gamer darling to one of the most valuable companies in the world. (Its share price hit a fresh record high ahead of the keynote.)
Huang’s presentation, delivered with his typical daggy dad aura, established the contours of the next phases of AI development. After announcing full production of the company’s powerful and efficient next-gen Blackwell chips, he proceeded to sketch out upcoming milestones for AI — from intelligent agents capable of performing various knowledge work tasks to the company’s new “world foundation” model, Cosmos, which trains real-world systems such as robotics and self-driving cars.
