CES 2026

CES 2026 keynoteJensen Huang, Jan 5, 2026

Monday, January 5, 20261h 32mChecked 2026-09-24

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Jensen Huang opened CES 2026 in Las Vegas, unveiling the Rubin AI platform, open Alpamayo autonomous-driving models and a Mercedes-Benz CLA with AI-defined driving.

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1. 1Huang said roughly 10 trillion dollars of the last decade of computing is being modernized to accelerated, AI-based computing.1:26:14
2. 2NVIDIA Rubin, its first extreme-codesigned six-chip AI platform, is now in full production, cutting token cost to about one tenth.55:31
3. 3NVIDIA showed a personal AI agent running locally on a DGX Spark desktop supercomputer, embodied in a Reachy Mini robot.21:52
4. 4DGX Spark delivers up to 2.6x performance for large models, with new support for Lightricks LTX-2 and FLUX image models.
5. 5NVIDIA announced Alpamayo, an open portfolio of reasoning vision-language-action models for level-4-capable autonomous driving.
6. 6The first car with Alpamayo on NVIDIA DRIVE will be the all-new Mercedes-Benz CLA, with AI-defined driving in the US this year.40:48
7. 7NVIDIA's open model portfolio spans six domains: Clara, Earth-2, Nemotron, Cosmos, GR00T and Alpamayo.

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