It was a huge week for the AI industry. Not only did AI innovation dominate the ‘biggest technology event in the world’ CES 2025, but there were some major new investment announcements, exciting new product launches and a glimpse of what the future might hold for the creation of generative AI models and the implications for businesses.
We also learnt that in 2024, around half of the $209bn of American venture capital went to AI companies! It’s set to be another blockbuster year for AI technology, with transformative applications emerging across industries.
As personal AI supercomputers hit the market at consumer prices, we might be witnessing the start of an innovation explosion that could make 2024’s investment look like pocket change.
NVIDIA Takes Over CES Through Innovation
NVIDIA dominated CES 2025’s opening keynote with Project DIGITS: a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer powered by their GB10 Grace Blackwell chip, delivering petaflop-level performance.
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA said:
AI will be mainstream in every application for every industry. With Project DIGITS, the Grace Blackwell Superchip comes to millions of developers. Placing an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher and student empowers them to engage and shape the age of AI.
Launching in May 2025, it gives developers, researchers, and students access to enterprise-grade AI computing power and NVIDIA’s comprehensive AI software library.
Beyond hardware, NVIDIA unveiled agentic AI blueprints for its Omniverse platform; enabling enterprises to deploy adaptive AI agents in workflows. It also showcased Cosmos; a platform to develop physical AI systems.
Anthropic Investment Shows how Investors are Betting Big on AI
Fresh from securing $4bn from Amazon, Anthropic is now poised to receive $2bn from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
This investment reflects a broader surge in AI funding, with the sector capturing half of 2024’s $209bn US venture capital cash!
Major players like OpenAI ($6.6bn raised), xAI ($6bn), and Apple ($11bn in AI infrastructure) are betting big on agentic AI, i.e. systems that can autonomously handle complex tasks. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman suggested that 2025 could mark the arrival of AI agents in the workforce, with professional services firm Accenture – amongst others – already testing this out:
We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ and materially change the output of companies.
NVIDIA Unveils Cosmos to Speed Up Development of Physical AI Systems
NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos at CES 2025; a platform for developing physical AI systems through world foundation models, advanced tokenisers, and accelerated video processing. It simulates real-world environments to train robots and autonomous vehicles – CEO Jensen Huang positioning it as ‘doing for physical AI what GPT did for generative AI.’
Cosmos integrates with NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform to create a ‘synthetic data multiplication engine’ for generating training environments. The company also announced four new blueprints for building digital twins; targeting various applications from robot fleet management to Apple Vision Pro integration.
Bluetooth Pairing Frustration to be Eradicated? Elliptic Labs Unveils Innovative Solution at CES
Elliptic Labs unveiled its AI Virtual Tap to Pair sensor at CES 2025. The technology simplifies device connectivity by allowing users to pair peripherals like mice, keyboards, and headphones by simply tapping them against a laptop, eliminating the frustration and wasted time connecting dongles manually via Bluetooth settings.
CEO Laila Danielsen said:
We’ve taken the frustration out of pairing devices and replaced it with a seamless, intuitive experience that feels almost like magic. Our software-only AI Virtual Tap-to-Pair Sensor delivers a smarter, faster, and more enjoyable way to connect.
This has implications for modern workplaces, particularly in hybrid and hot-desking environments. Beyond convenience, the technology offers enhanced security, optimised connectivity, improved accessibility for users with impairments, and environmental benefits through reduced electronic waste.
Elliptic Labs’ solutions exemplify AI’s potential to simplify – rather than complicate – daily technology interactions.
