[Image above] Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presenting the company’s new AI model at CES 2025. Dubbed Cosmos, this technology won the official Best of CES award not only for AI but for the entire show. Credit: Nvidia, YouTube

 

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the possibilities and perils of artificial intelligence have become a hotly debated topic at all levels of society. At its best, AI can help improve decision-making, enhance customer care, and reduce costs. But it can also negatively affect education, intellectual property, and privacy if we are not careful. Despite these reservations, attendees at this year’s CES got to experience the advantages of an ideal AI world.

Held each January in Las Vegas, CES is said to be the world’s largest annual consumer technology trade show. This year, CES took place January 7–10 and welcomed more than 141,000 attendees and more than 4,500 exhibitors.

During the four-day event, quite a few companies presented tangible AI products that were only blueprints during previous shows. View the highlights below.

Supporting AI processing: SK Group showcases new high-bandwidth memory chip

Compared to traditional computers, AI systems require enhanced processing power to handle the more complex algorithms and large datasets. During CES 2025, South Korean multinational manufacturing and services conglomerate SK Group announced a new high-bandwidth memory chip that can support this need.

The 12-layer HBM3E chip produced by SK Hynix offers improved speed, capacity, and stability—three key functions for AI memory. The chip entered mass production in September 2024.

More immediately applicable to consumers, the group announced that SK Telecom will release an AI-driven personal assistant called Aster on the North American market this year. Additional AI offerings by SK Group are discussed in the video below.

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Empathetic AI: LG sensors check in on user’s daily life

One possible benefit of AI is enhanced personalized healthcare. During CES 2025, South Korean multinational conglomerate LG Corporation presented a variety of AI-enabled home appliances and daily devices that can check in on the user throughout the day. For example, a steering wheel that detects if a user is too drowsy to safely drive. Additional examples of LG’s AI offerings are shown in the video below.

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Foundational AI advancements: Nvidia’s Cosmos could be ‘the ChatGPT moment for robotics’

Among the many AI announcements at CES 2025, a generative AI technology announced by U.S. multinational corporation and technology company Nvidia won the official Best of CES award not only for AI but for the entire show.

Dubbed Cosmos, this AI model uses neural networks to generate physics-aware assumptions about the future state of a given environment. For example, if a bolt rolls off a table in a factory and cannot be seen from above, the AI model knows it is still there but perhaps just on the floor.

Using Cosmos, robotics manufacturers and car makers could generate simulated virtual worlds and virtual world interactions with accurate spatial awareness, physics and physical interaction, and even object permanence. These simulations could then be used to train systems to intelligently deal with real-time situations.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presented a keynote at CES 2025 on this technology, and he said Nvidia intends to open-source the Cosmos code and make it available on GitHub. More information about Cosmos can be found here.

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