Jensen Huang, CEO of the company, stepped up NVIDIAtook to the CES stage on Monday to showcase the company’s latest innovations. While the show served as a reminder and update on the technologies the company has been working on for a few years, it did include two notable announcements worth paying attention to.
1. The “Alpamayo” system and the autonomous driving revolution NVIDIA announced Alpamayoa family of open source Reasoning Models designed to guide autonomous vehicles through difficult and complex driving situations.
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Alpamayo Model 1: The focus of this launch is a system based on the “Chain-of-thoughts” that includes 10 billion parameters. The company says it is able to handle driving in a way that mimics human thinking; It works by breaking down surprising situations into a smaller set of problems before finding the safest path, while being able to explain at each step why he made each decision.
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AlpaSim model: A sister model allows developers to conduct “closed-loop training” for rare driving scenarios that rarely occur in real life.
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Actual application: Huang stated that a car Mercedes Benz CLA 2025 It will be the first vehicle to ship with NVIDIA’s full self-driving suite, including the Alpamayo system. “Our vision is that one day, every car and every truck will be self-driving,” he said.
2. Supercomputing architecture “Vera Rubin” Following the car commercials, Huang was joined on stage by a pair of robots BD-1 From a game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (One of them had appeared the previous year.) After that, the conversation moved to the architectural structure Vera Rubin.
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NVIDIA had announced this graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture for the first time in 2024, and now the company has begun producing a supercomputer that uses this new technology.
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Super specifications:
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Vera CPU: It contains 88 custom “Olympus” cores and 1.5 TB of system memory, with a total of 227 billion transistors.
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Rubin GPU: Contains 336 billion transistors.
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Each Vera Rubin supercomputer contains a pair of both components.
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3. What about games? For those waiting for gaming-related announcements, Huang did not mention NVIDIA’s consumer graphics processing units (GPUs), but something may be revealed later during the exhibition.
CES 2026 coverage: The show takes place in Las Vegas from January 4 to 9. As always, the Engadget team is on site to cover all the news and products. Follow live coverage of press conferences from companies like LG, Lego, Hisense, NVIDIA, Hyundai and others via the live blog for the latest developments.
