NVIDIA Unveils Generative AI Products; Teams Up With Uber, Toyota

(RTTNews) - AI chipmaker Nvidia Corp. announced major product advancements in the field of generative artificial intelligence, amid significant growth of AI worldwide. The tech major also revealed partnerships with major corporates, including Uber Technologies, Inc., Toyota Motor Corp. and Accenture, at the Consumer Electronics Show or CES 2025 in Las Vegas.

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, during his keynote address at the CES 2025, issued several important technology updates.

Nvidia shares, which gained 3.4 percent on Monday's trading, is currently down 4%, at $143.49. Toyota gained 2.1% on the NYSE, and Uber was up 2.3 percent.

Nvidia's new launches include next-generation Cosmos platform, AI-powered gaming chips, its first desktop computer, and technology that speeds up the training of robots, among others.

Nvidia has launched an update to its GeForce graphics processing units or GPUs, created with Blackwell design that the company uses in its AI accelerators.

NVIDIA Cosmos

The company unveiled NVIDIA Cosmos, a platform comprising state-of-the-art generative world foundation models, advanced tokenizers, guardrails, and an accelerated video processing pipeline. It is built to advance the development of physical AI systems such as autonomous vehicles or AVs and robots.

Cosmos eliminates cost and resource barriers, helping democratize access to tools for developing physical AI.

Nvidia will offer Cosmos models under an open model license to accelerate the work of the robotics and AV community.

Nvidia also announced new Nvidia Llama Nemotron large language models and Nvidia Cosmos Nemotron vision language models.

Project DIGITS

NVIDIA's new personal AI supercomputer provides AI researchers, data scientists and students worldwide with access to the power of the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform. Project DIGITS will be available in May from NVIDIA and top partners, starting at $3,000.

According to Huang, the Grace Blackwell Superchip comes to millions of developers with Project DIGITS. It features the new NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, offering a petaflop of AI computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning and running large AI models.

DRIVE Hyperion Platform

NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle platform, NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperion, has passed industry-safety assessments by TV SD and TV Rheinland authorities for automotive-grade safety and cybersecurity, raising the bar for AV safety, innovation and performance. It will be available in the first half of 2025.

DRIVE Hyperion, the industry's first and only end-to-end autonomous driving platform includes the DRIVE AGX system-on-a-chip or SoC and reference board design, the NVIDIA DriveOS automotive operating system, a sensor suite, and an active safety and level 2+ driving stack.

The platform, which is designed to be modular, has been adopted by automotive safety pioneers such as Mercedes-Benz, JLR and Volvo Cars.

Omniverse With Generative Physical AI

NVIDIA announced generative AI models and blueprints that expand NVIDIA Omniverse integration further into physical AI applications such as robotics, autonomous vehicles and vision AI.

The Omniverse is being used by software development and professional services companies to develop new products and services that will accelerate the next era of industrial AI.

NVIDIA also announced four new blueprints that make it easier for developers to build Universal Scene Description or OpenUSD-based Omniverse digital twins for physical AI.

AI Foundation Models for RTX AI PCs

NVIDIA unveiled foundation models running locally on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs that supercharge digital humans, content creation, productivity and development.

Offered as NVIDIA NIM microservices, these models are accelerated by new GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, which feature up to 3,352 trillion operations per second of AI performance and 32GB of VRAM.

Nvidia's AI deals

Nvidia is collaborating with ride-hailing major Uber on new solutions to support the development of AI-powered autonomous driving technology. The companies will share additional details later this year.

With vast and rich source of data for Uber's millions of trips every day, the companies will look to pair with the NVIDIA Cosmos platform and NVIDIA DGX Cloud to help AV partners build stronger AI models even more efficiently.

Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, said, "Generative AI will power the future of mobility, requiring both rich data and very powerful compute. By working with NVIDIA, we are confident that we can help supercharge the timeline for safe and scalable autonomous driving solutions for the industry."

Further, Nvidia announced that mobility companies Toyota Motor, Aurora and Continental will develop and build their consumer and commercial vehicle fleets on NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI.

Japanese automajor Toyota will build its next-generation vehicles on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin, running the safety-certified NVIDIA DriveOS operating system. These vehicles will offer functionally safe, advanced driving assistance capabilities.

Aurora, Continental and NVIDIA also announced a long-term strategic partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale, powered by NVIDIA DRIVE. Its accelerated compute running DriveOS will be integrated into the Aurora Driver, an SAE level 4 autonomous-driving system that Continental plans to mass-manufacture in 2027.

NVIDIAs automotive vertical business, comprising cutting-edge platforms spanning training in the cloud to simulation to compute in the car, is expected to grow to around $5 billion in fiscal year 2026.

In a separate deal, KION Group is working with professional services company Accenture Plc to optimize supply chains using NVIDIA's advanced AI and simulation technologies.

Further, Accenture has launched AI Refinery for Industry, built with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, with a collection of 12 industry agent solutions. With this, organizations can rapidly build and deploy a network of AI agents that can enhance its workforce, address industry-specific challenges, and drive business value faster.

NVIDIA AI Enterprise software includes NVIDIA NeMo, NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA AI Blueprints, including Video Search and Summarization and Digital Human.