Nvidia’s Project Digits is a ‘personal AI supercomputer’

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” that provides access to the company’s Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a compact form factor. “[Project Digits] runs the entire Nvidia AI stack — all of Nvidia software runs on this,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said onstage during a press conference […]
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Nvidia is helping humanoid robots learn through Apple Vision Pro instruction

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Robotics have been a foundational element of Nvidia’s stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chip maker announced GR00T in March of last year, it was heralded as a watershed moment from humanoid robotics. Most of the category’s biggest names were available from launch, including, 1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Fourier […]
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Nvidia releases gaming chips for PCs, tapping AI features from data center GPUs

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

At CES in Las Vegas, Nvidia showed that it’s still focused on serving gamers even as the company’s primary business is now in the data center.

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Toyota’s next-generation cars will be built with Nvidia supercomputers and operating system

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Toyota announced at CES 2025 that its next-generation vehicles will have automated driving capabilities powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS. TechCrunch has reached out to Toyota to learn more about the automaker’s plans to deploy vehicles with autonomous capabilities.  DriveOS is the operating system for Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle platform […]
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Nvidia details Mega, a fleet manager for warehouse robots

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Nvidia continues its expansion into robotics software with Mega an Omniverse Blueprint designed specifically for robotic fleet management at scale. The offering, announced at CES Monday, specifically targets warehouses, a space that saw massive robotics adoption during the pandemic. Even so, most still lack significant automation. Companies like Locus Robotics have made significant headway in […]
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Samsung Electronics banking on AI to outpace global growth in smartphones, home appliances

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Samsung Electronics plans to ramp up on-device AI, as it bets on the consumer electronics unit to exceed overall global market growth this year.

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US says tech giant Tencent works with Chinese military

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

The Chinese embassy in Washington called the decision “unreasonable suppression of Chinese companies”.

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UFC boss to join board of Facebook owner Meta

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

It comes days after former UK deputy PM Sir Nick Clegg left his top job at the social media giant.

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Shares of Tencent fall over 5% in Hong Kong after U.S. designates it as a Chinese military company

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Other Chinese companies added to the list included battery maker CATL, which is part of the supply chain for automakers like Ford and Tesla.

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Sony-Honda’s Afeela EV will start at $89,900

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Sony has been trickling out details of the Afeela brand it launched with Honda, ever since it unveiled the EV in 2023. But it’s held back one big detail — until today. Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida announced Monday at CES 2025 that the four-door Afeela EV would have a starting price of $89,900. The Sony-Honda […]
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