Nvidia unveils robot training tech, new gaming chips and Toyota deal | U.S. & World [Video]

By Max A. Cherney and Stephen Nellis

(Reuters) -Nvidia on Monday took the wraps off new products such as artificial intelligence to better train robots and cars, souped-up gaming chips and its first desktop computer, as it expounded upon its potential to expand its business.

At CES 2025, a major annual tech conference in Las Vegas, CEO Jensen Huang laid out how the world’s second-most valuable firm is bringing technology that powers its lucrative data center AI chips to consumer PCs and laptops.

He also introduced what Nvidia calls Cosmos foundation models that generate photo-realistic video which can be used to train robots and self-driving cars at a much lower cost than using conventional data.

By creating so-called “synthetic” training data, the models help robots and cars understand the physical world similar to the way that large language models have helped chatbots generate responses in natural language.

Users will be able to give Cosmos a text description …