CES 2026 keynote
Jensen Huang · Jan 5, 2026 · 1h 32m · Las Vegas
Summary
Jensen Huang opened CES 2026 in Las Vegas, unveiling the Rubin AI platform, open Alpamayo autonomous-driving models and a Mercedes-Benz CLA with AI-defined driving.
Key themes: AI infrastructure, Robotics, Open models · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Huang said roughly 10 trillion dollars of the last decade of computing is being modernized to accelerated, AI-based computing.1:26:14
- 2NVIDIA Rubin, its first extreme-codesigned six-chip AI platform, is now in full production, cutting token cost to about one tenth.55:31
- 3NVIDIA showed a personal AI agent running locally on a DGX Spark desktop supercomputer, embodied in a Reachy Mini robot.21:52
- 4DGX Spark delivers up to 2.6x performance for large models, with new support for Lightricks LTX-2 and FLUX image models.Source
- 5NVIDIA announced Alpamayo, an open portfolio of reasoning vision-language-action models for level-4-capable autonomous driving.Source
- 6The first car with Alpamayo on NVIDIA DRIVE will be the all-new Mercedes-Benz CLA, with AI-defined driving in the US this year.40:48
- 7NVIDIA's open model portfolio spans six domains: Clara, Earth-2, Nemotron, Cosmos, GR00T and Alpamayo.Source
Announced
1 available the same day| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Rubin platformFirst extreme-codesigned six-chip AI platform, now in full production | GA |
| NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage PlatformAI-native KV-cache tier for long-context inference | Announced |
| Alpamayo (R1, AlpaSim)Open reasoning VLA models and simulation blueprint for autonomous driving | Announced |
| Mercedes-Benz CLA with AlpamayoFirst Alpamayo-equipped passenger car, AI-defined driving in the US this year | Coming |
| DGX Spark performance updateUp to 2.6x performance for large models, upcoming NVIDIA AI Enterprise support | Announced |
| NVIDIA HyperionOpen, modular, level-4-ready platform adopted by automakers and robotaxi providers | Announced |
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About this keynote
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Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NBILspM4c4
- Jensen HuangFounder and CEO, NVIDIA
Companies named: CodeRabbit, CrowdStrike, Mercedes-Benz, NetApp, Nvidia, Palantir, ServiceNow, Snowflake
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