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By Max A. Cherney and Stephen Nellis
(Reuters) – AI will help train robots and cars better, as well as new gaming chips, Nvidia (NASDAQ:) CEO Jensen Huang said in a speech at the CES 2025 conference on Monday that the world’s second-most valuable company has the potential to expand its services.
Nvidia Cosmos has introduced what it calls ‘foundation’ models that can be used to train photo-realistic video-generating robots and self-driving cars at a much lower cost than standard data.
By creating what’s known in the tech industry as “artificial” training data, the models help robots and cars understand the physical world, similar to the way large language models help chatbots respond in natural language.
Users can provide Cosmos with a text description that will be used to generate a video of the world that obeys the laws of physics.
This promises to be cheaper than collecting data as is done today. For example, to train self-driving cars, companies have vehicles driving around to collect data, and humanoid robots are often trained by having real people repeat their tasks over and over again.
But Huang cautioned that Cosmos models need a lot more data before they hit their ‘ChatGPT moment’.
Cosmos is offered under an “open license” similar to MetaPlatforms’ (NASDAQ:) Llama3 language models, which are widely used in the tech industry.
“We 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 create movie-like graphics for video games, particularly in the field known as ‘shaders’, which help make images like a ceramic teapot look more realistic by adding imperfections and fingerprints to its face. .
The new chips also have AI technology to help game developers generate more accurate human faces, an area where gamers will notice less realistic features. The chips, which Nvidia calls the RTX 50 series, range in price from $549 to $1,999.
Nvidia says the mid-range $549 gaming chips will match the company’s previous flagship chip, the RTX 4090, which sold for $1,600.
Neviam also said. Toyota Motor (NYSE: ) uses Orion chips and automotive operating systems to power advanced driver assistance on multiple models. He did not give detailed information about the models.
Huang expects automotive hardware and software revenue to reach $5 billion in fiscal 2026, up from $4 billion this year.
Huang demonstrated a desktop computer called Project DIGITS. The computer will feature the same chip at the heart of the company’s data center offerings, but will be paired with a central processor developed with the help of Taiwan’s MediaTek.
The chips come in a small package that can be used by individual software developers to quickly test their AI systems.
The first Project Digital system wasn’t consumer-friendly — it ran the Linux-based NVIDIA operating system, which was used more by computer programmers than consumers, and cost $3,000.
CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, runs January 7-10 in Las Vegas.
Nvidia stock closed at a record high of $149.43 on Monday, bringing its value to $3.66 trillion, making it the world’s second most valuable company behind Apple (NASDAQ:
