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Honing in on Nvidia Live with Jensen Huang
Hi folks, Marcus Mears III here at CES 2026.
We’re just over an hour away from the Nvidia Live keynote here in Las Vegas, and the city is buzzing with tech enthusiasts from the world over.
I’m excited to see what Team Green is cooking up this year. I expect a lot of talk about AI of course – you can’t get away from it nowadays – and hopefully some great new features for PC gamers.
I’ll bring you my thoughts on the event as it happens, so stay tuned.
Nvidia Live wrapped
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I’m back from Nvidia Live, where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presented several new AI-powered endeavors, including a new open-source model for autonomous vehicles, improvements to agentic AI models, impressive hardware upgrades for factories, and even some new adorable robotic friends.
It wasn’t without resistance, though, as Huang went head to head with technical difficulties during the presentation – nothing major, just some presentation malfunctions.
I’ll break down the key points here.
Nvidia unveils Alpamayo for autonomous vehicles
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Nvidia seeks to change the way self-driving cars see and interact with the world through an open-source AI model dubbed ‘Alpamayo.’
The presentation video showed a human driver who didn’t touch the wheel a single time, letting Alpamayo do all the work as the autonomous vehicle traversed busy intersections, recognized potentially perilous situations like a ball rolling into the street (a warning that a child may soon run into the street after it – and one did), and safely arrived at the destination.
The idea behind Alpamayo is to bring “humanlike thinking to AV decision-making,” meaning the system doesn’t just react to the environment around it, but instead uses the environment to reason, predict, and maneuver.
And after 8 long years of waiting, we’re finally getting an Nvidia-powered self-driving car in the 2025 Mecedes Benz CLA.
Robots on stage!
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Jensen Huang was joined by two incredibly cute robot companions on stage – they operated autonomously thanks to Cosmos AI and are the closest thing we have to real life Star Wars droids.
They’re not just cute little robots, though. They’re a sign that autonomous robots are a reality, and little winks and waddles are the tip of the iceberg for what they can do.
Huang also shared how similar AI infrastructure will be employed in robots for companies like Uber Eats, LG, Caterpillar, and Boston Dynamics.
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