Source: Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily
Author: Liu Rui
At 10:30 a.m. Beijing time on Tuesday, January 7, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage and delivered one of the most watched speeches at this year's CES.
In this approximately 90-minute speech, Huang Renxun not only released the latest generation of computer GPUs, the GeForce RTX 50 series, as scheduled, but also brought many surprises about AI models, intelligent driving, AI robots, AI supercomputers, etc.
Nvidia's first "king bomb": super powerful GPU finally debuts
At the beginning of his speech, Huang Renxun briefly reviewed the company's history and the development of AI, and then quickly threw out the first "trump card": GeForce RTX 50 series GPU.
Jen-Hsun Huang shows off GeForce RTX 5090
This series of GPUs includes the highly anticipated GeForce RTX 5090, Nvidia's most powerful graphics card at present, priced at $1,999. The RTX 5090 is claimed to be the fastest graphics card in the world, twice as fast as its predecessor, the RTX 4090. It is equipped with 92 billion transistors and 4,000 AI TOPS.
Nvidia also launched the GeForce RTX 5080, priced at $999, the RTX 5070 Ti, priced at $749, and the RTX 5070, priced at $549. All of these graphics cards will go on sale later this month.
Nvidia said that the RTX 50 series chips will support a feature called DLSS 4, which uses AI to increase game frame rates and can also display more details of people's faces, providing users with better pictures and higher resolutions.
Huang Renxun specifically mentioned that the performance of the RTX 5070 graphics card, which costs only $549, will be comparable to the RTX 4090 GPU launched last year, which costs as much as $1,600. Huang Renxun bluntly said: "Without artificial intelligence, this would not be possible."
"We use GeForce to implement artificial intelligence, and now artificial intelligence is revolutionizing GeForce. The new generation of DLSS can generate content beyond frames, and it can predict the future," Huang Renxun said in his keynote speech.
Huang also unveiled gaming laptops with the graphics cards, priced from $1,299 to $2,899. The laptops will start shipping in March.
Blackwell is now in full production
After launching the most important new GPU product, Huang Renxun spent more of his speech time discussing the broader field of artificial intelligence.
Huang Renxun first discussed how the huge demand for computing power in data centers in the era of artificial intelligence development has driven the market's huge demand for NVIDIA Blackwell.
He specifically held up an enlarged Blackwell GPU to explain - by the way, when he held up this enlarged GPU, he deliberately made a gesture like holding a shield, and accompanied it with passionate background music, which was briefly humorous.
Huang confirmed that despite some setbacks in 2024, the Blackwell chip is finally in full production.
Blackwell is now in full production
Will AI become the digital workforce?
Huang then turned his topic to AI agents, showing a video showing what AI agents can do, from search assistants and factory operations to employee management and financial analysis.
Huang Renxun said: "This will be the next huge application of artificial intelligence. AI agents may bring trillion-dollar business opportunities."
He predicted that in the future, AI agents will become a digital workforce working alongside company employees, “In many ways, every company’s IT department will be like an AI agent’s HR department in the future!”
However, the audience seemed to have a lukewarm reaction to Huang Renxun's grand "pie in the sky". Huang Renxun also joked, "It seems that this doesn't seem to have left a deep impression on you." So he turned the topic to the next "pie in the sky" - physical AI.
Huang Renxun officially announced the new physical AI model Cosmos
Jensen Huang officially announced NVIDIA Cosmos, a fundamental model of the world designed to understand the physical world.
Huang said the model was trained on 20 million hours of video, which was designed to "teach AI to understand the physical world."
Huang said the Cosmos models will come in three sizes: Nano, Super and Ultra.
He said developers can use Omniverse to create a 3D scene and then use Cosmos to transform it into a photorealistic scene. They can then generate multiple models at the same time to help the robot figure out the best way to complete a task.
Cosmos will be available under an open license on Github, and Huang said he hopes it will be as influential as Llama 3.
Huang Renxun demonstrated the application of Cosmos in factory management, autonomous driving and other aspects through a video:
“In the future, every factory will have a digital twin, and each digital twin will operate exactly like the real factory.”
AI empowers autonomous driving
The topic then turned to autonomous driving. Huang Renxun revealed that Nvidia's next-generation automotive processor product, called Thor, is now in full production. Its computing power is 20 times that of the previous generation automotive processor Orin. Thor is also suitable for traditional robots.
Huang Renxun shows THOR
Huang Renxun showcased his many automotive partners, including domestic giants BYD, Ideal, Xiaomi, Zeekr, etc.
Huang also announced that Toyota will work with Nvidia to produce the next generation of self-driving cars. Huang said:
"With the success of Waymo and Tesla, it's clear that self-driving cars are here to stay."
NVIDIA's next-generation automotive chip product Thor
AI ROBOT
Huang Renxun then talked about AI robots. He showed more than a dozen AI robots from different companies on the big screen and demonstrated how NVIDIA helps train these AI robots:
“What is the key capability? How to train these robots. It’s easy with cars – just drive them – but showing robots how humans work is much more difficult.”
Jensen Huang unveils Project Digits
At the end of his speech, Huang demonstrated an ultra-small Nvidia AI supercomputer - Project Digits.
Huang Renxun demonstrates Nvidia's AI supercomputer
The computer is based on a new chip called GB110, the smallest Blackwell GPU Nvidia has ever made. Huang revealed that GB110 is in production and was developed in partnership with MediaTek.
Project Digits also carries 20 Arm CPU cores. Huang Renxun expects Project Digits to be available around May. It can be used as a small workstation or in conjunction with an existing PC.
Project Digits usage scenarios
