If last year was about AI chatbots, CES 2025 is about AI that does things. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang delivers the keynote everyone is talking about, unveiling the RTX 50 series, a tiny personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits, and the Cosmos platform for training robots and cars. The message is that the next phase of AI is agents and physical machines, not just text in a box.
The AI PC grows up, Afeela nears the road
Qualcomm pushes its Snapdragon X chips further down into mainstream laptops, making the AI PC a real category rather than a premium curiosity, and Copilot+ machines are everywhere. Sony and Honda’s Afeela inches toward production with pricing and a preorder timeline, turning the 2023 concept into something you might actually buy.
The trend for the year ahead
The conversation shifts from chatbots to agents, software that can take actions on your behalf, and the silicon to run AI locally becomes the thing everyone is selling. Expect on-device AI to be the battleground this year.
Jensen’s keynote is the clearest statement of where this is all going, and it is not toward another chat window. Project Digits is the kind of thing that makes me want to clear space on my desk. The AI PC is finally becoming normal, and that is good for everyone.
Part of 20 Years of CES Through My Lens, my year-by-year diary of the show.