NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang opened CES 2026 at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas with a message that AI is moving into every domain and device. He said, “Computing has been fundamentally reshaped as a result of accelerated computing, as a result of artificial intelligence,” and added, “What that means is some $10 trillion or so of the last decade of computing is now being modernized to this new way of doing computing.”
Huang unveiled Rubin, NVIDIA’s first extreme-codesigned, six-chip AI platform now in full production, and introduced Alpamayo, an open reasoning model family for autonomous vehicle development. NVIDIA said Rubin is the successor to the record-breaking NVIDIA Blackwell architecture.
According to Huang, Rubin is designed to “push AI to the next frontier” while cutting the cost of generating tokens to roughly one-tenth that of the previous platform. The company also said the platform is built from the data center outward, with components including Rubin GPUs, Vera CPUs, NVLink 6, Spectrum‑X Ethernet Photonics, ConnectX‑9 SuperNICs and BlueField‑4 DPUs.
NVIDIA also announced the NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform, described as an AI-native KV-cache tier for long-context inference. The company said it delivers 5x higher tokens per second, 5x better performance per TCO dollar and 5x better power efficiency.
Huang highlighted NVIDIA’s open models, trained on NVIDIA supercomputers, across healthcare, climate science, robotics, embodied intelligence and autonomous driving. The portfolio includes Clara, Earth-2, Nemotron, Cosmos, GR00T and Alpamayo. He said, “These models are open to the world,” and added, “You can create the model, evaluate it, guardrail it and deploy it.”
At the event, Huang also showed a demo of a personalized AI agent running locally on the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and embodied through a Reachy Mini robot using Hugging Face models. NVIDIA said DGX Spark now delivers up to 2.6x performance for large models, with support for Lightricks LTX‑2 and FLUX image models and upcoming NVIDIA AI Enterprise availability.
In physical AI, NVIDIA showcased Cosmos open world foundation models trained on videos, robotics data and simulation. The company said Cosmos can generate realistic videos from a single image, synthesize multi-camera driving scenarios, model edge-case environments from scenario prompts, perform physical reasoning and trajectory prediction, and drive interactive, closed-loop simulation.
NVIDIA also announced Alpamayo R1, which it called the first open, reasoning VLA model for autonomous driving, and AlpaSim, a fully open simulation blueprint for high-fidelity AV testing. Huang said the first passenger car featuring Alpamayo built on NVIDIA DRIVE full-stack autonomous vehicle platform will be on the roads soon in the all-new Mercedes-Benz CLA, with AI-defined driving coming to the U.S. this year.
On gaming and creation, NVIDIA announced DLSS 4.5, RTX Remix Logic, and new GeForce NOW Apps for Linux PC and Amazon Fire TV. It also said over 250 games and apps now support NVIDIA DLSS 4 technology.
Source: blogs.nvidia.com.
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