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CES 2025: Nvidia Unveils Personal Supercomputer, New GPUs

The chip giant will give a keynote address at CES in Las Vegas, showcasing a new AI computer, a range of new GPUs, and “world models” for AI.

Nvidia is no longer just making chips that will help train the world’s AI; the chipmaker will also release personal supercomputers. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced this at a press conference at the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The device, called Digits, is about the size of a desktop computer and looks like a Mac Mini in design. But it packs a 10GB Grace Blackwell Superchip. That would let you run sophisticated AI models on your desk at home, perhaps significantly powered by regular electrical power.

The system can handle models with up to 200 billion parameters, but that comes at a price: prices for the device start at $3,000. “Project Digits brings the Grace Blackwell Superchip to millions of developers,” said Jensen Huang. “By putting an AI supercomputer on the desk of every data scientist, AI researcher, and student, we’re giving them a chance to help shape the AI ​​era.”

Under the hood, the device has 128GB of memory and up to 4TB of NvMe storage. You can chain two of them together for even more power to run models with up to 405 billion parameters. For reference, those are the same parameters as those in Llama 3.1, Meta’s latest AI model.

Gaming Chips and World Models
In addition to the supercomputer, Nvidia also announced something for its traditional customers: gamers. For example, Huang showed a new generation of its gaming chips in the RTX 50 series in Vegas. These graphics cards use Nvidia’s Blackwell AI technology to conjure cinematic images on your computer screen. They cost from 549 dollars to 1,999 dollars.

For the enthusiasts: the flagship, the RTX 5090, contains 92 billion transistors, 4,000 AT TOPS, 380 ray-tracing TFLOPS and 1.8 TB/s of bandwidth for those two thousand dollars. Starting in March, you can also buy laptops with these built-in GPUs, including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and Razer.

In addition to the new chip and supercomputer, Nvidia also showed its plans to create its world models in Vegas. These are AI models inspired by people’s mental models of the world around them.

The company will make a family of these world models available, the Cosmos World Foundation Models, which can generate realistic environments. Researchers and developers can use them to simulate, for example, a factory floor, where they can then train the artificial intelligence for their, let’s say, self-driving forklift.

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