NVIDIA Unveils Vera Rubin AI Platform at CES 2026 with 10x Inference Cost Reduction

Summary

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the next-generation Vera Rubin computing platform at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, marking a significant leap in AI data center infrastructure. The platform uses extreme codesign across six chips -- the Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU, and Spectrum-6 Ethernet Switch -- to deliver up to 10x reduction in inference token cost and 4x reduction in GPUs needed to train mixture-of-experts (MoE) models compared to the current Blackwell