Everything Nvidia announced at CES 2026

Jensen Huang took to the CES stage on Monday to introduce Nvidia’s latest achievements, and although the presentation was mostly devoted to reviewing the technologies the company has been working on over the past few years, there were a few notable announcements as well.

Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo, a family of open-source reasoning models designed to guide self-driving cars in difficult driving situations. The centerpiece of the unveiling was Alpamayo 1, a chain-of-mind system with 10 billion parameters that Nvidia says is capable of driving in a human-like manner. The model finds the safe route by decomposing unexpected driving situations into smaller sets of problems. At each step, the model can explain the reasons for its decisions.

A sister model, AlpaSim, allows developers to perform closed-loop training for driving scenarios that rarely occur in real life. The 2025 Mercedes-Benz CLA will be the first car to come with Nvidia’s full suite of self-driving technology, including Alpamayo, Huang said. “Our vision is that one day every car and every truck will be self-driving,” Huang said.

After Alpamayo’s introduction, two BD-1 robots from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order came on stage with Huang. One of these robots accompanied Huang at CES last year. After that, Huang went on to introduce Vera Rubin’s computing platform. Nvidia first announced its GPU architecture in 2024, and now the company has begun production of a supercomputer that uses the new technology.

Each Vera processor has 88 custom Olympus cores, 1.5 TB of system memory, and a total of 227 billion transistors. Meanwhile, each Rubin graphic has 336 billion transistors. Each Vera Rubin supercomputer contains a pair of both components.

For those hoping for gaming-related news, Huang didn’t have any news about Nvidia’s consumer graphics cards, but something may be announced later on at CES.

CES 2026 will be held in Las Vegas from January 4th to January 9th (December 14th to December 19th).