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Top stories today:
- NVIDIA chief calls robots “multitrillion-dollar” opportunity
- HydraDAO secures $4.1M for replacement research
- Biden’s offshore drilling ban to have “negligible” short-term impact
- Trump says his tariff policy won’t be pared back
- Meta adds outspoken Trump supporter Dana White to board
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1. NVIDIA chief calls robots “multitrillion-dollar” opportunity, outlining vision for next-level growth
Cosmos World Foundational models for humanoid robots released by NVIDIA at CES 2025.
Cosmos Nano, Super, and Ultra are the 3 tiers.
Trained on 20M hours of “human walking, hands moving, manipulating things,” NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said.
The AI models are available under NVIDIA’s open model license.
Mega Omniverse blueprint was also launched to help build industrial robot fleets.
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$1,999 RTX 5090, $999 RTX 5080, $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and $549 RTX 5070 are the new models.
Jan. 30: RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs will be available, while the other 2 will debut in Feb.
RTX 5090 Founders Edition was also unveiled with a two double flow-through fan design, 3D vapor chamber, and GDDR7 memory.
NVIDIA has also showcased its $3,000 Project Digits “personal AI supercomputer”
AI models with up to 200B parameters can run on the supercomputer.
GB10, developed in tie-up with MediaTek, powers the machine with up to 128GB memory pool.
May: availability from “top partners.”
2. HydraDAO secures $4.1M for replacement research
Aimed at studying body part replacement to extend lifespan.
“[T]he science we've been working on[—]head transplants, spinal cord fusion, grown organ sacks—[are] true radical life extension technologies.” HydraDAO founder Kai Michai Mills said.
Aug. 2024: Replacement researcher Jean Hébert was appointed as a Program Manager at the Advanced Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
