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Agentic AI is the next step for generative bots.
Agentic AI, a buzzword during the latter half of 2024, was a hot topic at CES. Agentic AI typically links multiple processes together. Creative AI services To automate tasks that would otherwise take a human worker hours or days to complete.
NVIDIA’s Blueprints for Agent AI are pre-built packages of technologies from NIM Microservices and AI partners. For example, LangChain uses its own LangGraph, plus Llama 3.3 70B NVIDIA NIM microservices to generate reports. The agent searches the web and interprets the user’s request to provide a report in a given format.
Accenture Agent sees AI as useful for managing inventory, personalizing patient care in clinical trials, and troubleshooting problems with industrial equipment. The company partnered with NVIDIA on its AI Refinery platform for deploying agents in business environments.
“Advances in digitizing knowledge, new AI models, agentive AI systems and architectures are enabling enterprises to create their own unique cognitive digital brains,” said Karthik Narayan, Group Chief Executive of Technology and Chief Technology Officer at Accenture. Press release.
Next generation GPUs revealed
Generative AI training and inference and the chips powering processors for laptops and PCs were top of my mind at CES 2025. The major processor announcements were:
The GeForce RTX 5090 GPU leverages NVIDIA’s top-of-the-line Blackwell architecture. Developers can also check out the $3,000 Project Digits, which NVIDIA calls a desktop supercomputer. Project DIGITS uses the one-penta-flop NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip for prototyping, tuning and deploying generative AI models.
“Fusing AI-powered neural rendering and ray tracing, Blackwell is the most important innovation in computer graphics since we introduced programmable shading 25 years ago,” said NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. Press release.
See: Microsoft offers laptops from different manufacturers. Copilot+ label If devices can natively run creative AI.
Can AI make humanoid robots perform?
Huang expressed hope for today’s creative AI to eventually become humanoid Robot assistants A fact
Humanoid robots get attention for their sci-fi flying. However, from the quiet retirement of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robots to a human operator reportedly controlling an autonomous Optimus robot at a Tesla promotional event in October, efforts to commercialize them have been unsuccessful.
NVIDIA’s differentiator is Cosmos, which Huang calls a “global foundation model platform.” The platform applies large amounts of simulated motion data to this problem. It builds on the Isaac GR00T research platform, which developers can access now. While GR00T helps a synthetic robot learn from human movement, Cosmos creates physics-informed videos and models of physical environments to teach robots how to navigate the world.
AI comes for autonomous and augmented driving.
Autonomous cars are another important part of CES. Full autonomy remains a dream, but Waymo’s success marks a cautious step toward making autonomous cars more common.
NVIDIA also wants a place in self-driving cars. Huang announced that NVIDIA’s self-driving platform, NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperionhas passed two industry safety standards. Toyota and others signed NVIDIA Driver assistance operating system. In addition, Uber will use the Cosmos model to experiment with AI-powered self-driving vehicles.
“Generative AI will power the future of mobility, which requires rich data and very powerful computing,” said Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Press release. “By working with NVIDIA, we believe we can help supercharge the timeline for safe and scalable autonomous driving solutions for the industry.”
Elsewhere in Automotive Software, Bosch Developed a cloud-based system to alert drivers — and nearby drivers using the same program — when they’re driving against the flow of traffic.
New laptops and laptop rebrandings are entirely driven by AI.
As a consumer-focused show, CES featured a wide range of devices, including high-definition TVs and powerful gaming PCs. But we found the featured laptop to be the most notable for business.
Dell made a new announcement. Naming scheme and line of business laptops At CES 2025, among several other laptop and AI PC offerings. Lenovo leans into AI with the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 rollable laptop, which opens from a 14-inch display to 16.7 inches and can run generative AI tools.
The Snapdragon X Plus CPU and AI features in the remarkably light (2.2 pounds) Asus Zenbook A14. Samsung announced a new Galaxy Book 5 line powered by Samsung’s Galaxy AI.
“We’re thrilled to make Galaxy AI and cutting-edge innovation accessible to more people than ever before, addressing their unique productivity needs on PCs and other Galaxy devices,” said Changtae Kim, EVP and head of the new computing R&D team for the mobile experience business at Samsung Electronics.
TechRepublic covered CES 2025 from afar.