Nvidia unveils desktop AI superchip

Nvidia has unveiled its latest AI supercomputer at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, marking the debut of its Project DIGITS desktop AI superchip.

Despite the excitement surrounding the announcement, Nvidia’s shares fell amid a broader market decline on January 7.

During his keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described the new era of "physical AI," highlighting advancements that allow AI systems to reason, plan, and act.

Project DIGITS, powered by the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, is aimed at providing researchers, data scientists, and students with access to a deep learning GPU training system.

This superchip is expected to be priced at approximately $3,000 and will be available in May.

Additionally, Huang introduced Nvidia’s Cosmos platform, designed to enhance the development of humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles.

“The autonomous vehicle revolution is here,” Huang said, emphasising the platform’s ability to generate synthetic driving scenarios that significantly improve training data for AI systems.

Nvidia also launched AI Blueprints for agentic AI, which will allow developers to build and deploy custom agents with capabilities like PDF-to-podcast conversion and video search and summarisation.

Despite the launch of these cutting-edge AI products, Nvidia’s shares fell 6.2% to $140 on January 7, with only a modest 1% recovery in after-hours trading.

The drop was part of a larger market slump triggered by mixed U.S. jobs data, which particularly impacted tech and crypto stocks.

However, analysts remain optimistic about Nvidia’s future performance.

“The company continues to position itself more favorably—not just in the data center but increasingly in all areas of the edge,” said William Stein, an analyst at Truist Securities.