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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking during the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking during the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Photo: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg News

Jensen Huang pleased the crowd at the CES conference this week—just not the “right” crowd. 

The Nvidia co-founder and chief executive was in rare form for the annual conference’s keynote address, even swapping his typical black leather racing jacket for a glittery one. He used the occasion to introduce products such as new videogaming processors and even an artificial-intelligence supercomputer the size of a large sandwich. He also announced new efforts in humanoid robots and self-driving cars, the latter of which he predicted will be the “first trillion-dollar robotics industry.” 

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