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January 7, 2025
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It’s time for the largest tech conference every year. Today may not be the official first day of CES 2025, but it is a media day, meaning many
It’s time for the largest tech conference every year. Today may not be the official first day of CES 2025, but it is a media day, meaning many companies are holding their press conferences to show off their latest products. CES usually sets the stage for each year, and judging by everything that’s already been announced so far, AI will continue to find its way into every possible corner of our lives.
Engadget’s team has already landed in Las Vegas and begun the hard work of scouring the floral-carpeted show floors to find the most interesting products being shown off here. We’ll be giving out awards for our best things at CES 2025, but before we make those decisions, there’s a lot more to see and touch.
If you want to live vicariously through us, there is no better place to keep up than our liveblog, which will be updated regularly throughout today. You can also tune in for our live coverage of all of the biggest press conferences happening today, including LG, Samsung, Sony and NVIDIA. Keep your browser tab open here, and you might feel like you’re right in Vegas, surrounded by weird robots!
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Unlike yesterday, which was full of press conferences every hour, we don’t expect to be covering many individual keynotes. In fact, the show floor officially opens today, meaning we can somehow get through the construction outside the Las Vegas Convention Center and see the massive booths that await us inside.
Good morning and welcome to day 2 of Engadget’s CES 2025 liveblog! Thanks for joining us today as we bring you updates directly from Las Vegas, where the world’s largest annual tech conference is taking place. Our on-the-ground team has already been here for two days (though it feels like a year) and collectively our entire team has covered multiple press conferences and pretty much all the biggest news we expect to see from this year’s CES. From now till this evening (Vegas time), we will highlight the most important and interesting products and announcements as we roam the staticky, carpeted floors of the convention center and various hotels. Stick around, there may be surprises in store!
We’re going to wrap this liveblog up for the day, but join us tomorrow bright and early at 8am ET, where we will continue to share more from CES 2025. For now, keep checking our home page for any news that our team will publish round the clock.
Thanks very much to Devindra for liveblogging us through that long, roughly two-hour keynote. Most of the Engadget CES 2025 team is currently at Pepcom, where we’re taking a look at more gadgets that companies around the world have brought here to Las Vegas. Already, there’s a set of headphones that caught my attention. They’ll squirt water in your ears, then heat them to dry them. Wild.
Looks like we’re wrapping up, thanks for joining us folks! Hopefully we’ll have some hands-on time with the RTX 5000 GPUs this week!
Huang says he expect Project Digits to be available around May. It can work as a small workstation, or alongside your existing PC.
Huang unveils the Project Digits box. (NVIDIA)
It’s powered by GB110, the smallest Grace Blackwell chip NVIDIA has made.
Huang is now holding NVIDIA’s latest AI supercomputer, Project Digits .
Huang is now discussing the history of NVIDIA DGX, basically supercomputers in a box. He delivered the first one to OpenAI in 2016.
The next AI frontier? Robots. (NVIDIA)
This is the third time Huang has explained the same basic concept of robot AI training. We get it!
Huang is joined by visions of humanoid robots on stage. All I want is a robot to clean my kitchen and do dishes, darn it!
“We take thousands of drives and turn them into billions of miles [of training data],” Huang says.
We’re watching how NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos could be used together to train autonomous vehicles, especially when it comes to edge-case driving scenarios.
NVIDIA Drive OS has been certified up to ASIL B and D, the first time a software-based engine has reached that level of safety
NVIDIA’s next-gen car computer is Thor, shown here. (NVIDIA)
NVIDIA’s next-gen computer for the car is called Thor, and it’s in fully production. It’s twenty times the computation power of its last gen car hardware.
Physical AI is pulling in quite a few automotive partners. (NVIDIA)
Toyota and NVIDA will partner to produce their next-gen autonomous vehicles.
