Inside CES 2026, Where AI Starts Doing the Work
by Lynn Miteva
At CES 2026, NVIDIA, Intel, and LG revealed AI that works at human speed.
Vera Rubin slashes cloud delays to instant, Panther Lake delivers real-time offline intelligence, and LG’s CLOiD robot and OLED evo W6 bring autonomy and AI-powered visuals into daily life.
From analyzing emails to folding laundry and immersive driving displays, AI is finally doing the work for us.
NVIDIA
NVIDIA set the tone at CES 2026 with Vera Rubin, its next-generation AI supercomputer platform.
Replacing Blackwell, Vera Rubin delivers a 5× training speed increase and scales to 15-exaflop racks, cutting common cloud AI tasks from 10–20 seconds to effectively instant.
In everyday tasks, this means your AI assistant can scan 10,000 emails, cross-reference them with your calendar, and draft a project proposal in the time it takes you to type a subject line.
Why It’s Mind-Blowing
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The headline "15 exaflops" is a number so large it’s hard to visualize(The power of 100,000 high-end PCs in one rack).
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THE Internet in a Box: A single Vera Rubin rack has 260 TB/s of internal bandwidth. That is more data moving inside one server rack than the entire global internet's traffic at any given moment.(Moving 500 4K movies every single second)
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Today’s top AI systems still take 10–20 seconds to scan a million-word report or hundreds of emails to find a hidden deadline. Vera Rubin does it instantly—mid-sentence as you type.
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Climate (Neighborhood Weather): Current models predict "rain in the city." Rubin simulates physics at such a high resolution it can predict the exact wind gust on your specific street corner ten minutes from now by modeling the air molecules around individual buildings.
AlphaMyo AI
The first car that can explain its driving logic to you
Launching this Q1 2026, the first NVIDIA-native autonomous vehicles (in partnership with Mercedes) use the AlphaMyo VLA model.
This is the first "thinking" car.
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Reasoning vs. Reacting: Most self-driving cars just see a "stop" sign. AlphaMyo sees a child playing near the road and reasons that they might chase a ball, pre-braking before the child even moves.
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The "Why" Feature: For the first time, you can ask your car, "Why did you just slow down?" and it will answer in plain English: "I noticed the delivery truck's hazard lights and the driver's door opening, so I'm creating space for the driver to step out." It’s no longer a black box; it’s a navigator.
Intel Panther Lake
If NVIDIA is building the brain of the cloud, Intel’s Panther Lake (Core Ultra 300) is the brain of the individual.
This isn't just a faster processor; it is the debut of the Intel 18A node, a 2nm-class breakthrough that brings American-made supercomputing to your backpack.
The 27 -Hour Battery: This is the headline "wow." Intel officially clocked 27.1 hours of 1080p streaming on the Core Ultra X9. This isn't just "all-day" battery; it’s "charge once a week" territory for average users.
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The Xe3 "Celestial" Leap: With 12 Xe3 cores, this chip delivers a 77% gaming uplift and outruns entry-level discrete GPUs. You can now edit 4K video, run 50+ Chrome tabs, and upscale photos live during breakfast without the fan ever turning on.
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NPU 5.0 Sovereignty: With 50 TOPS on the NPU, Panther Lake handles LLMs locally. Your voice notes analyze themselves as you speak, and sensitive business data stays on your device, never touching the cloud.
LG Electronics
LG focused on removing physical effort, not just clicks.
Its CLOiD™ home robot, demoed January 5 in a “Zero Labor Home,” uses 3D LiDAR and seven-DOF arms to handle real chores—folding laundry and cooking ramen—with 95% success rates.
LG plans Q3 2026 home trials priced at $2,500, positioning CLOiD as a working appliance, not a novelty.
OLED evo W6 Wallpaper TV
LG also showed the OLED evo W6 Wallpaper TV, a fully wireless display powered by the Zero Connect Box, streaming 4K up to 30 feet without cables. It supports 4K at 165Hz, a 0.1ms response time, NVIDIA G-Sync, and built-in Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot.
When idle, Gallery+ displays AI-generated art instead of a black screen. In an automotive demo, LG used AI to transform tunnel views into immersive forests on Hyundai windshields, replacing static 2025-era displays with dynamic environments.