NVIDIA 2025 International CES Keynote: Liveblog

NVIDIA is kicking off CES 2025 with a bang. The company is expected to unveil the next generation of gaming graphics cards, the GeForce “Blackwell” RTX 5000. The company is also expected to unveil new technologies such as neural rendering and DLSS 4. The company is also expected to unveil a new chip for Windows on Arm laptops, will demonstrate the next Drive PX FSD hardware and maybe even talk about its next generation “Blackwell Ultra” AI GPU, and if we’ll be lucky even about the name “Ruby”. Join us as we blog with a keynote address from CEO Jensen Huang.

02:22 UTC: The show has finally started!

02:35 UTC: CTA President Gary Shaprio opens the show and introduces Jensen Huang.

02:46 UTC: “Tokens are the building blocks of AI”

02:46 UTC: “Do you like my jacket?”

02:47 UTC: NVIDIA talks about progress up to NV1 and UDA.

02:48 UTC: “CUDA was difficult to explain, it took 6 years for the industry to fall in love with it”

02:50 UTC: “AI is coming home to GeForce.” NVIDIA demonstrates neural material and neural rendering. Rendering on Blackwell

02:55 UTC: Every pixel is ray-traced thanks to AI rendering.

02:55 UTC: Here it is, GeForce RTX 5090.

03:20 UTC: At least someone is pushing the boundaries of GPU usage.

03:22 UTC: Incredible board design.

03:22 UTC: The RTX 5070 matches the RTX 4090 at $550.

03:24 UTC: Here is the lineup available from January.

03:24 UTC: The RTX 5070 laptop starts at $1,299.

03:24 UTC: “The future of computer graphics is neural rendering”

03:25 UTC: Blackwell RTX Laptops: Starting Prices:

03:26 UTC: Artificial intelligence is back at the heart of GeForce.

03:28 UTC: Presumably Grace Blackwell NVLink72.

03:28 UTC: 1.4 Exaflops.

03:32 UTC: NVIDIA very quietly announced a Windows AI chip for PCs.

03:35 UTC: NVIDIA teaches the basic physics of generative AI. NVIDIA Cosmos, a model of the world’s foundation.

03:41 UTC: NVIDIA Cosmos is trained on 20 million hours of video.

03:43 UTC: Cosmos is openly licensed on GitHub.

03:52 UTC: NVIDIA is using Toyota for its next-generation fully self-driving electric vehicle.

03:53 UTC: NVIDIA introduces Thor Blackwell robotics processor.

03:53 UTC: Thor has 20 times the processing power of Orin.

03:54 UTC: CUDA is now a functionally safe computer thanks to automotive certifications.

04:01 UTC: NVIDIA brought a dozen humanoid robots to the stage.

04:07 UTC: Project DIGITS is a miniature artificial intelligence supercomputer.

04:08 UTC: NVIDIA GB110 “Grace-Blackwell” chip powers DIGITS.