CES 2026 AI highlights: NVIDIA Rubin & wild gadgets

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The episode discusses major AI announcements from CES 2026, including NVIDIA's new Rubin platform and Meta's acquisition of Manus AI.

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts Is NVIDIA unstoppable? In this episode of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Martin Keen to unpack the biggest announcements from CES 2026. First up, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang revealed the Rubin platform—a chip architecture promising 5X the performance of Blackwell and slashing inference token costs by 10X. Does this cement NVIDIA’s dominance? We also explore the wild world of CES gadgets. Then, we look at whether Meta's USD 2 Billion acquisition of Manus AI signals a major pivot toward enterprise agentic platforms. Later, we dissect DeepSeek’s newpaper on manifold-constrained hyperconnections (MHC)—a smarter way to train models that prioritizes efficiency over brute-force scaling. Finally, we analyze new polling data revealing Americans' complex relationship with AI: optimistic about the benefits but deeply concerned about who controls it. All that and more on Mixture of Experts! 00:00 – Introduction 01:27 – CES 2026 12:41 – Meta's USD 2 Billion Manus bet 20:08 – DeepSeek tackles scaling 33:35 – AI optimism vs. fear The…

People in this episode

Host: Tim Hwang

Guests: Chris Hay, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Martin Keen

Topics covered

• AI advancements
• CES 2026
• NVIDIA
• Meta acquisition
• DeepSeek
• AI public perception

Keywords

• NVIDIA
• CES 2026
• AI
• Meta
• Manus AI
• DeepSeek
• public perception
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NVIDIA, Meta, Manus AI, DeepSeek

Products: Rubin platform, Blackwell

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