Nvidia Introduces Robot Training Technology, New Gaming Chips, And Collaboration With Toyota

JAKARTA Nvidia revealed a number of the latest products at CES 2025, including artificial intelligence (AI) technology to train robots and cars, advanced gaming chips, and their first desktop computer. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the company's potential to expand its business to various new sectors.

One of the innovations introduced was a foundation model called Cosmos, which was designed to produce photo-realistic videos to train robots and cars without the need to collect data in the real world. This technology allows users to provide text descriptions to produce virtual world videos that comply with physical laws.

Cosmos is promised to be more cost-effective than traditional data collection methods, such as putting cars on the road to record videos or train robots manually. Nvidia also stated that Cosmos will be available with an open license, similar to Meta Platforms' Llama 3 language model.

Jensen Huang hopes Cosmos will be a catalyst in the development of industrial AI and robotics. However, Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya said that while this innovation is interesting, there are still challenges to making this technology quite reliable, cheap, and widespread to create significant business models.

In gaming, Nvidia launched the latest chip, the RTX 50 Series, which uses 'Blackwell' AI technology. The chip is designed to provide film equivalent graphic quality, especially in 'shader' processing, which makes the details such as ceramic surface look more realistic.

This chip also helps game developers create a more accurate human face, an area that players often pay attention to. The RTX 50 Series chip will be available at prices ranging from 549 US dollars (Rp 8.8 million) to 1,999 US dollars (Rp 32.2 million), with the highest models launched on January 30 and other models in February.

Nvidia also introduced their first desktop computer, Project DIGITS, which is aimed at software developers. The computer is priced at US$3,000 (Rp48.4 million) and runs the Linux-based operating system.

Project DIGITS is equipped with the same chip as Nvidia data center products, but is packaged in smaller sizes for use by individual developers. This computer will be available in March.

In the automotive sector, Nvidia announced a collaboration with Toyota Motor, where Orin chips and Nvidia's automotive operating system will be used to support advanced driver assistance features in several Toyota models. Although it does not provide model details, Nvidia projects automotive hardware and software revenues of US$5 billion in fiscal year 2026, up from US$4 billion this year.

CES 2025 took place on January 7-10 in Las Vegas. Nvidia shares set a record high of 149.43 US dollars, with the company's valuation reaching 3.66 trillion US dollars, making it the second largest public company in the world after Apple.