Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said the partnership illustrates the commitment both companies have made to advancing the use-cases of AI. Nvidia and Chinese search engine giant Baidu are teaming up to develop a cloud-based platform for use in artificially intelligent, self-driving cars. See how the cloud is disrupting traditional operating models for IT departments and entire organizations. The partnership combines Nvidia's self-driving computing platform with Baidu's cloud and mapping technology to develop an algorithm-based operating system capable of powering complex navigation systems in autonomous vehicles. The open platform will be available for branded car OEM consumer vehicle offerings, as well as fleets of driverless commercial vehicles.

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang talked up how his company has enabled artificial intelligence and other technologies. The future is artificial intelligence, and that reality is happening now -- at least according to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. Huang, speaking Wednesday in a packed ballroom at the CES tradeshow in Las Vegas, made it clear that Nvidia's no longer just a computer graphics chipmaker. It's one of the companies helping us live in a truly smart world, with cars and homes that obey our voice commands, he said. In his hour- and 15-minute-long keynote at the Venetian hotel, Huang rattled off a series of new products, ranging from the ability to stream games to Facebook Live to a remote artificial intelligence microphone that lets you control the Google Assistant in your Nvidia Shield Android TV from anywhere in your home.

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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said the partnership illustrates the commitment both companies have made to advancing the use-cases of AI. Nvidia and Chinese search engine giant Baidu are teaming up to develop a cloud-based platform for use in artificially intelligent, self-driving cars. The partnership combines Nvidia's self-driving computing platform with Baidu's cloud and mapping technology to develop an algorithm-based operating system capable of powering complex navigation systems in autonomous vehicles. The open platform will be available for branded car OEM consumer vehicle offerings, as well as fleets of driverless commercial vehicles. The companies are going after Level 3 autonomous vehicle control, which means the car can drive itself (and park itself) in some circumstances, but with a competent human driver at the ready.

OpenAI, a non-profit research company devoted to advancing artificial intelligence, has become one of the proud owners of a DGX-1, NVIDIA's so-called "supercomputer in a box," a server specifically designed for machine learning work. The system, which was hand-delivered to the company's headquarters in San Francisco by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, will be used to run some of OpenAI's most computationally challenging applications. More generally, the DGX-1 will be used to support the company's mission, namely to "advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." The non-profit is being backed by Silicon Valley icons like Elon Musk and Peter Theil, and managed to attract more than a 1 billion worth of funding at the time it was founded in December 2015. The company only expects to spend a tiny fraction of that amount over the next few years.

A visitor to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona tries on a virtual-reality headset, one of a coming wave of VR devices. SAN FRANCISCO – I love watching people experience virtual reality for the first time. The cumbersome headsets exaggerate their movements as they scan left to right, and then nod up and down. And every time they look in another direction and spot something new, you can almost feel their amazement through the goggles. Lately, I feel as though I've put on a VR headset and never took it off. Because every time I turn, it seems, I spy something truly inspirational.