After the official announcement of blockbuster products such as super GPU and AI supercomputer, Huang Renxun: AI agency "may bring trillions of dollars in business opportunities"

Source: Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily

Author: Liu Rui

At 10:30 am on Tuesday, January 7, Beijing time, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang took the stage and delivered one of the most watched speeches at this CES exhibition.

In this approximately 90-minute speech, Huang Renxun not only released the latest generation of computer GPU-GeForce RTX 50 series as scheduled, but also brought many surprises about AI models, intelligent driving, AI robots, AI supercomputers, etc.

NVIDIA’s first “king bomb”: super powerful GPU finally unveiled

At the beginning of the speech, Huang Renxun briefly reviewed the history of the company and the development of AI, and then quickly revealed the first "king bomb": GeForce RTX 50 series GPU.

 Jen-Hsun Huang shows off GeForce RTX 5090

This series of GPUs includes the highly anticipated GeForce RTX 5090 -Nvidia's most powerful graphics card currently priced at $1,999. The RTX 5090 is claimed to be the fastest graphics card in the world, being twice as fast as its predecessor, the RTX 4090. It is equipped with 92 billion transistors and 4000 AI TOPS.

In addition, Nvidia also launched the GeForce RTX 5080, priced at $999; RTX 5070 Ti, priced at $749; and RTX 5070, priced at $549. All of these graphics cards will be available starting later this month.

Nvidia said that the RTX 50 series chips will support a feature called DLSS 4, which uses AI to increase game frame rates and can also display more details on characters’ faces, providing users with better graphics and higher resolution. resolution.

Huang Renxun specifically mentioned that the performance of the RTX 5070 graphics card, which sells for only $549, will be comparable to the RTX 4090 GPU launched last year, which sells for up to $1,600. Huang Renxun said bluntly: "Without artificial intelligence, this would be impossible."

"We use GeForce to implement artificial intelligence, and now artificial intelligence is revolutionizing GeForce. The new generation of DLSS can generate content beyond frames, and it can predict the future." Huang Renxun said in the keynote speech.

Huang Renxun also launched gaming laptops equipped with the above-mentioned graphics cards, priced from 1,299 to 2,899 US dollars. The laptops will start shipping from March this year.

Blackwell is now in full production

After the release of the most important new GPU product, Huang Renxun devoted more speech time to discussing the broader field of artificial intelligence.

Huang Jenxun first discussed that in the era of artificial intelligence development, the huge demand for computing power in data centers has driven the market's huge demand for Nvidia Blackwell.

He specifically held up an enlarged Blackwell GPU to explain - by the way, when he raised the enlarged GPU, he also deliberately made a gesture like a shield, with exciting background music, briefly humorous.

Huang Jenxun confirmed that despite some obstacles in 2024, Blackwell chips are finally in full production.

 Blackwell is now in full production

Will AI become the digital workforce?

Then, Huang Renxun’s topic turned to AI Agents. He played a video showing the tasks that AI agents can assist with—from search assistants and factory operations to employee management, financial analysis, and more.

Huang Renxun bluntly said: "This will be the next huge artificial intelligence application, and AI agents" may bring trillions of dollars in business opportunities. "

He predicted that in the future, AI agents will become a digital workforce working alongside company employees. “In many ways, every company’s IT department in the future will be like the human resources department of AI agents!”

However, the audience in the audience seemed to have a mediocre response to Huang Renxun's grand "Painting". Huang Renxun also joked, "It seems that this didn't leave a deep impression on you." So he changed the topic again. A "pie" - Physical AI (Physical AI).

Jen-Hsun Huang officially announces new physical AI model Cosmos

Jen-Hsun Huang officially announced NVIDIA Cosmos, a fundamental model of the world designed to understand the physical world.

Huang said the model was trained on 20 million hours of video, which was designed to "teach AI to understand the physical world."

Huang said the Cosmos model will come in three sizes: Nano, Super and Ultra.

He said developers can use Omniverse to create three-dimensional scenes and then use Cosmos to convert them into photorealistic scenes. They can then generate multiple models simultaneously to help the robot figure out the best way to complete a task.

Cosmos will be open-licensed on Github, and Huang said he hopes it will be as impactful as Llama 3.

Huang Renxun demonstrated the application of Cosmos in factory management, autonomous driving, etc. through a video:

“In the future, every factory will have a digital twin, and each digital twin will operate exactly like a real factory.”

AI empowers autonomous driving

The next topic comes to autonomous driving. Huang Renxun revealed that Nvidia’s next-generation automotive processor product, called Thor, is now in full production. Its computing power is 20 times that of the previous generation automotive processor Orin. Thor also works with traditional robots.

 Jen-Hsun Huang shows off THOR 

 Huang Renxun showed off his many automotive partners, including domestic giants BYD, Ideal, Xiaomi, Jikrypton, etc.

Huang also announced that Toyota will cooperate with Nvidia to produce the next generation of self-driving cars. Huang Renxun said:

"With the success of Waymo and Tesla, it's clear that self-driving cars are here."

NVIDIA’s next-generation automotive chip product, Thor

AI ROBOT

Huang Renxun next talked about AI robots. He showed more than a dozen AI robots from different companies on the big screen and showed how NVIDIA helps train these AI robots:

"What are the key capabilities? How do you train these robots. It's easy with cars - just drive them - but it's much more laborious to show robots how humans work."

Jen-Hsun Huang unveils Project Digits

At the end of the speech, Huang Renxun showed an ultra-small NVIDIA AI supercomputer - Project Digits.

 Jen-Hsun Huang demonstrates NVIDIA AI supercomputer

The computer is based on a new chip called the GB110 - the smallest Blackwell GPU Nvidia has ever produced. Huang Renxun revealed that GB110 is in production and is being developed in cooperation with MediaTek.

Project Digits is also equipped with 20 Arm CPU cores. Huang Renxun expects that Project Digits will be listed around May. It can be used as a small workstation or used with an existing PC.

 Project Digits usage scenarios