NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at CES 2026 on Monday to reveal the company’s latest push into AI and gaming. While much of the talk looked back at existing tech, several new announcements stood out.
The biggest shift involves Alpamayo, a group of open-source models designed for self-driving cars. The flagship model, Alpamayo 1, uses 10 billion parameters to solve tricky driving problems. Unlike older systems, it uses “chain-of-thought” reasoning. This means the car breaks down a surprise traffic jam or a sudden obstacle into smaller pieces before deciding on a path. It can even explain why it chose a certain move.
Huang confirmed that the 2025 Mercedes-Benz CLA will be the first car to use this full AI stack. Developers can also use a companion tool called AlpaSim to train cars for rare, “one-in-a-million” accidents in a safe, virtual world.
In a fun moment, two Star Wars BD-1 droids joined Huang on stage before he pivoted to heavy-duty hardware. NVIDIA has started making its Vera Rubin supercomputer. This machine packs a punch with a Vera CPU featuring 88 custom cores and a Rubin GPU that holds 336 billion transistors. Each unit uses two of each component to handle massive AI workloads.
For PC gamers, the news focused on DLSS 4.5 and G-Sync Pulsar. DLSS 4.5 uses a second-generation transformer model to clean up “ghosting” and blurry edges in fast-moving games. Owners of RTX 50-series cards get a huge boost with 6x multi-frame generation. This allows a powerful card like the RTX 5090 to generate five extra frames per rendered frame, easily filling a high-end 4K, 240Hz screen. The system also features “dynamic generation,” which automatically creates more frames during heavy action and scales back when things quiet down to save power.
Lastly, NVIDIA introduced G-Sync Pulsar to fix screen flicker and blur. Pulsing the backlight makes motion look as clear as on a 1,000Hz display. These new monitors also adjust their own brightness and color based on the light in your room. You can pre-order the first Pulsar displays starting January 7.
