Nvidia is unveiling new products at CES, with a focus on servers and data transmission. The main theme is Physical AI, which refers to artificial intelligence with a physical form. The Blackwell architecture is being replaced by Rubin, a new processor combination featuring Vera CPU and Rubin GPU. This setup is five times more powerful than the previous generation and twice as energy-efficient.
Server racks now utilize complete liquid cooling systems, eliminating cable clutter and noise, resulting in a clean and futuristic appearance. Nvidia introduced Cosmos, a foundational model of the world trained on videos and simulations, capable of understanding object falls and body movements. This serves as a basis for training future robots. Robots are now learning to walk and operate in virtual simulations (Isaac Lab) before entering the real world.
Additionally, Alpamo is introduced as the first ‘thinking’ autopilot, capable of reasoning and explaining its actions. Its model and data are fully open source. Mercedes-Benz plans to deploy vehicles with a full Nvidia stack on the roads by early 2026, claiming they will be the safest cars in the world. Nvidia also presented Spectrum-X Ethernet with silicon photonics, integrating lasers and optics directly into the chip, enabling extremely high data transfer speeds within data centers.
Nvidia is collaborating with Siemens to create digital twins of factories, using AI for design and virtual testing in Omniverse before construction. New open-source models were announced for biology (BioNemo), weather (Earth-2), and a new language model, Nemotron-3. Blueprints, which are ready-made codes for creating intelligent AI agents from various subsystems that assist in work, were also introduced.
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