Nvidia just provided a closer look at its new computing platform for AI data centers, Vera Rubin, a release that could have major ramifications for the future of AI given the industry’s massive reliance on the company’s tech.
Nvidia previously announced some details about Vera Rubin but laid out how the system will work and revealed its launch timing during the CES tech conference in Las Vegas on Monday. Vera Rubin is currently in production and the first products running on it will arrive in the second half of 2026, the company said.
Nvidia has become the poster child for the AI boom, with the pervasiveness of its AI chips and platforms propelling it to briefly become the world’s first $5 trillion company last year. But the company is also combatting fears of an AI bubble amid growing competition and a push by tech companies to make their own AI chips to decrease reliance on Nvidia.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, clad in his signature leather jacket, addressed the question of where AI funding is coming from – a point central to the bubble debate – in his opening remarks on stage at the theater inside the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. He said companies are shifting budgets in research and development in classical computing methods to artificial intelligence.
“People ask, where is the money coming from? That’s where the money is coming from,” he said.
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