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Jensen Huang predicts robotics could become “the largest technology industry the world has ever seen”; Nvidia: the humanoids market to reach $38B in 20 years — Jensen Huang unveils AI models for humanoids and self-driving car partnership with Toyota at CES keynote
Nvidia updates its Autonomous Game Characters, says the NPCs can “perceive, plan, and act like human players” in games like PUBG, with “small language models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Nvidia updates its Autonomous Game Characters, says the NPCs can “perceive, plan, and act like human players” in games like PUBG, with “small language models” — Nvidia has spent the last two years showing off its digital “ACE” characters that can have in-game conversations with you using generative AI.
Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s Cosmos models for humanoids were trained on 20M hours of real footage of “humans walking, hands moving, manipulating things” (Will Knight/Wired)
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s Cosmos models for humanoids were trained on 20M hours of real footage of “humans walking, hands moving, manipulating things” — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the new family of foundational AI models was trained on 20 million hours of “humans walking; hands moving, manipulating things.”
Sources: Apple plans to expand Apple News in more countries and considered building locally focused news coverage in the UK; Apple News has 125M monthly users (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sources: Apple plans to expand Apple News in more countries and considered building locally focused news coverage in the UK; Apple News has 125M monthly users — Tech group now a force in driving revenues for publishers in US, UK, Canada and Australia — Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free
Nvidia announces early access to Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX, enabling smarter autonomous machines with generative AI, via APIs for select devs like Accenture (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
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Nvidia announces early access to Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX, enabling smarter autonomous machines with generative AI, via APIs for select devs like Accenture — Nvidia announced early access for Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX software to enable smarter autonomous machines with generative AI.
Nvidia announces the Llama Nemotron and Cosmos Nemotron family of AI models to advance agentic AI, available in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes on Hugging Face (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia announces the Llama Nemotron and Cosmos Nemotron family of AI models to advance agentic AI, available in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes on Hugging Face — Nvidia announced Nemotron Model Families to advance agentic AI as part of its bevy of AI announcements at CES 2025 today.
Nvidia says the RTX 5090 has 92B transistors, 4,000 AI TOPS, and GDDR7 memory, with support for next-gen DLSS 4, which can now generate multiple frames at once (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Nvidia says the RTX 5090 has 92B transistors, 4,000 AI TOPS, and GDDR7 memory, with support for next-gen DLSS 4, which can now generate multiple frames at once — As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs.
Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070, available starting in January (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070, available starting in January — Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today. After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs …
Toyota says its next-gen vehicles will have automated driving powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
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Toyota says its next-gen vehicles will have automated driving powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS — Toyota announced at CES 2025 that its next-generation vehicles will have automated driving capabilities powered …
Nvidia shares Cosmos World Foundation Models, a family of world models that can generate “physics-aware” videos, available from Hugging Face and Nvidia’s API (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Nvidia shares Cosmos World Foundation Models, a family of world models that can generate “physics-aware” videos, available from Hugging Face and Nvidia’s API — Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally.
