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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a keynote address at CES in Las Vegas, announcing the launch of the Vera Rubin AI chip series, which is now in full production. The company claims the new chips offer a tenfold reduction in inference token cost compared to the previous Blackwell generation, with improved price performance and backward compatibility for easier upgrades.

Huang also introduced new autonomous driving software featuring enhanced reasoning capabilities, allowing vehicles to handle complex scenarios beyond standard traffic rules. While no pricing details for the new chips were disclosed, Nvidia emphasized its ongoing innovation in both AI and automotive technology.

Nvidia CEO gives keynote address at CES, unveils automated vehicle AI

20 shares of NVIDIA down just a fraction of a percent after hours of CEO Jensen Huang delivers his keynote address at CES. CNBC's John Ford has the highlights from Las Vegas. Hey John. Hey Melissa. Well the bad news is Jensen just got off the stage literally 90 seconds ago. So he's not going to make it up here a couple floors from the stage in time for fast money. But I will be taping with him. We'll have that on CNBC tomorrow. The big news out of his talk I believe is Vera Rubin. Now we had been expecting this next generation of NVIDIA technology. They talked about it a bit but there's some major updates here including that all six chips that are a piece of this are now in full production. They're giving some benchmark stacks on how they're running and the partner systems are arriving in the second half of this year. And a little bit of that detail that they're saying 10 times lower inference token cost versus Blackwell. It's a fancy way of saying the price performance is a whole lot better than the current generation. And the argument is yeah this might be expensive but it's premium. And the bang that you get for the buck is going to be that much better than the existing systems. Talk to Jensen before about how they've made these systems kind of backward compatible. So it's relatively easy to swap in the latest generation for the old one. As a matter of fact I was talking with one of NVIDIA's partners earlier today. The CEO of Runway which does a high end A.I. video he was saying they were able to swap from the previous generation of NVIDIA into their test with Vera Rubin in a day and get that price performance benefit. He was singing its praises there in partnership with NVIDIA. But this is NVIDIA's push and attempt to tell the ecosystem we're still innovating. We're staying ahead of competitors not just on performance but they will argue on efficiency as well. Melissa and you'll hear a lot more from Jensen in the conversation that we're going to have tomorrow morning on squat box. John they also announced a move into autonomous driving software. Can you sort of elaborate on that and whether or not that was already sort of expected in the works you know in the plan here or is this a brand new endeavor. Well NVIDIA has got a long legacy with autonomous driving and with next generation cars. So this is building on that where they've got new reasoning capabilities inside of the system that they're delivering for that. Now when I was talking to the NVIDIA folks about this the example I gave was oh like when we had that blackout that outage in San Francisco the way more cars had some trouble knowing what to do when there's no traffic lights. This is the car that's equipped with this technology. We'll have the ability to make some decisions not just follow traffic light based rules that it's been given. And that is the idea. But they were kind of like hey you said that. We didn't say it. We're not comparing it to Waymo. But that's why potentially you want your car to be able to reason if there's a situation that's not in the manual that you need to navigate through. I'm just curious also Johnny because after the keynote Jensen took some questions. What was it. What were that was the tone of the questions. I'm wondering what the audience was. What was sort of revealed in the thinking of the audience. Well as you mentioned it. So the keynote just ended. He's coming up here and right over here about 50 feet to my right. He's going to meet with some analysts. That's where we expect more of those in-depth questions. And then I'm talking to him after that. So I have the benefit of hearing some of those questions. And of course I've got my own. Do you think he'll unveil the price of the new chip versus the price of the old. I didn't hear the price but I'm not sure I can count that high either.

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Nvidia CEO gives keynote address at CES, unveils automated vehicle AI

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