Five announcements from Jensen at CES last night that you should know about
Jensen’s talk at CES last night will likely go down in history as one of the most significant moments in the history of technology. Not only did Jensen announce an insane amount of new products and solutions from Nvidia, he also shared his vision for the future, a future where humanoid robots and self-driving cars are no longer Science Fiction.
If you haven’t watched Jensen’s keynote yet, I highly recommend it, you can watch it here. That being said, it is an hour and a half long, so I decided to put together this article on Medium to help you get to the good stuff.
So let’s jam. If there are five things you should know from last night, I think these are them⬇
Project Digits
This is one of the announcements I’m personally really excited for, it’s called Project Digits and as the tweet above says, it’s a $3,000 computer that’s 1,000 times more powerful than the average laptop 🤯
At the core of this mini supercomputer is the Nvidia Blackwell GPU and an Nvidia Grace processor, this combo is what makes it so darn fast.
GeForce RTX 50 Graphics Cards and Laptops
Everyone knew this was coming but that didn’t take any excitement out of the air when Jensen kicked off his talk with the announcement. Every year at CES Nvidia announces their latest-and-greatest graphics card and this is the most powerful one by leaps and bounds.
Of course the new cards use the latest Blackwell GPU architecture, and leverage fifth-generation Tensor Cores and fourth-generation Ray Tracing Cores to make it insanely fast.
Price points were also announced, here’s the skinny ⬇️
- Geforce RTX 5070 — coming Feb ’25: $549
- Geforce RTX 5070 Ti — coming Feb ’25: $749
- Geforce RTX 5080 — coming on 1/30: $999
- Geforce RTX 5090 —coming on 1/30: $1,999
And in case you didn’t catch why this new RTX card is such a big deal…Mario says it best, a $549 card that can beat a $1,600 RTX 4090.
I think possibly my favorite quote from Jensen’s talk last night is this simple but incredibly powerful sentence below.
“The ChatGPT moment for general robotics is right around the corner”
When Jensen said this, he was standing on stage flanked by robots from either side. It really was a pretty stellar moment, I mean, just look at this image and tell me you don’t feel like we’re living in the future.
So in summary — the robots are coming 🤖
Toyota and Nvidia are partnering up to make self-driving cars
This is an announcement that will likely change many of our lives in the not-too-distance future. Let’s be honest, you see Toyota’s everywhere, even if you don’t own one yourself, try to go through a day without seeing one, it’s impossible.
Right now Tesla has mostly been the highlight of the self-driving car world, and while you might see a lot of Tesla’s, you see more Toyotas. If Toyota switches to self-driving, the world switches to self-driving, I really think it is that simple.
But there was some blowback on this announcement. Many people cited the fact that Nvidia isn’t really partnering with Toyota on self-driving cars…
So this one might need some more time to develop.
Last but not least, I couldn’t possibly leave this one gem out of the top five announcements from Jensen last night. And I’ll start with a photo.
Yes, what you’re looking at, in Jensen’s own words is:
basically one giant chip
And that chip is the Nvidia GB200 NVL72: a superchip with 72 Blackwell GPUs, 1.4 exaFLOPS of compute and 130 trillion transistors designed for data centers. It’s safe to say this is the chip that every single AI data center is drooling over this right now 🤤
If you want to see Jensen’s two minute walkthrough of the GB200, Trung shared it in the tweet above.
Okay, and there you have it, five things you should know about, and now do from Jensen’s keynote at CES last night. Remember, this keynote was an hour and a half so there was a lot more than these five announcements. I still highly recommend watching the whole keynote when you have the time, you can watch it here.
