CNET goes to Las Vegas and we’re taking you with us. Whereas a lot of you’ll be having fun with a sluggish begin to the brand new yr, we’re diving headfirst into 2025 by making our first cease CES, the large kahuna of know-how reveals. From wild robots to next-generation automobiles to cutting-edge TVs, we’ll be getting up shut and private with the tech that may outline the following yr of our lives.
The official dates for CES 2025 are Jan. 7 to 10, however we’ll arrive on the town just a few days previous to that for an early look and unique press-only previews earlier than the present doorways even open. Some aspect occasions are scheduled as early as Saturday, Jan. 4. And Monday, Jan. 6, is a day of back-to-back press conferences, the place the most important names in tech, together with Samsung, Sony and LG, will unveil their newest merchandise and units to the world.
Lots of the merchandise we’ll see at CES will probably be ideas — high-tech concepts which have been delivered to life however are works in progress which will or could not make it into the true world as completed merchandise. There will even be loads of units accessible so that you can purchase both instantly or within the close to future. We’ll let you understand what they’re and whether or not they’re value your hard-earned money.
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CES 2025 developments
At CES 2024 we noticed thrilling tech developments emerge, from clear screens to new options to take your own home off grid. We’re again for one more yr to see how these developments have advanced within the intervening 12 months, in addition to what’s new for 2025. These are what we count on to be the defining themes of the present.
AI and its brokers
AI was in all places at CES 2024, and whereas there have been some cool examples of the fast-moving know-how, there was additionally loads of empty hype. At CES 2025, we’ll be on the lookout for clear proof that AI is making a distinction to any merchandise it is embedded in, and is not simply lending itself to a label on a field or one other bullet level on a spec sheet.
At this yr’s present, we count on to listen to a lot about “agentic AI,” which is able to put good assistants on the forefront of machine interfaces. It is an concept that’s been closely hinted at by tech corporations, and it is even the topic of experiments, in ways in which recommend it might ultimately kill off apps. But it surely has but to be executed in a means that makes us satisfied it’s going to be the long run.
We might be taken unexpectedly by extra standalone AI units. At CES 2024, the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin unexpectedly stole the present, however later didn’t stay as much as the promise. Extra possible we are going to see AI built-in into present merchandise, from TVs to telephones to snowblowers to toothbrushes.
CNET Senior Editor Lisa Eadiccico examined the Rabbit R1 and stated it felt half-baked.
Final yr we noticed the emergence of Copilot Plus PCs with devoted AI buttons, and we count on to see extra this yr. Samsung with its “screens in all places” technique will probably be packing AI into its new washer and dryer, in addition to its wall oven. LG, in the meantime, is placing AI sensing tech into automobiles in an effort to “detect and reply to the wants of car occupants whereas optimizing circumstances throughout the cabin.”
Sizzling new chips
As a lot as you go to CES hoping to see the leaps and bounds in know-how, you additionally go along with the attention that many merchandise will symbolize the following era of what you understand already. These enhancements cannot occur with out the work of chipmakers, which design the tech that reinforces the efficiency and energy of our most-used units.
At this upcoming CES, we count on each Nvidia and AMD to announce new chips, and for the businesses they associate with to unveil units with these chips inside. For Nvidia, that is more likely to imply Acer, Asus, Razer, Lenovo and Dell.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will kick off the present with a keynote handle through which he is anticipated to make bulletins concerning the firm’s next-generation CPUs and GPUs, which is able to possible be excellent news for the laptop computer avid gamers amongst us. Already the corporate has teased its GeForce RTX 50 collection GPUs on-line, and extra particulars appeared in a leak concerning Acer Predator Orion PCs.
In the meantime, AMD has already confirmed that we’ll see RDNA 4 GPUs on the present. As for Qualcomm, the corporate had its huge annual launch occasion again in October, however it normally retains one thing up its sleeve for CES.
The Supernal electrical air taxi debuted at CES 2024.
Automotive tech within the quick lane
Over the previous decade, automobiles have more and more nudged their means onto middle stage at CES. EVs are one of many hottest classes in tech, and CES 2025 will showcase the most recent in futuristic electrical automobiles and transportation ideas.
Quite a few high automakers will probably be at CES once more this yr, unveiling all the things from infotainment-system updates to brand-new EVs. Hyundai is about to point out off the world’s first full-windshield holographic show, which is able to span from the driving force’s seat to the entrance passenger seat, whereas BMW is about to debut its Panoramic iDrive show. Honda has already teased two glossy prototype 0 Sequence electrical automobiles, which it would unveil on the present.
Conventional tech corporations are additionally on the lookout for a slice of the auto pie, with Sony rumored to be exhibiting off the Sony-Honda Afeela automotive with built-in PS5. Powering a lot of the next-gen automotive tech are chip corporations resembling Qualcomm, which is able to possible have updates of its personal to announce on the present.
On the mobility aspect of the trade, Waymo, which simply introduced the worldwide enlargement of its autonomous automobiles to Tokyo, is about to stipulate its imaginative and prescient for the long run in an unique keynote session.
CNET’s David Katzmaier has been masking CES for greater than 20 years. And one way or the other, he is survived.
CNET’s skilled predictions
A lot of CNET’s seasoned know-how specialists will probably be on the bottom in Vegas, able to embrace the bizarre, wacky and great. For many of us, this is not our first rodeo, and we’re heading into the present with excessive expectations. Listed here are a few of our predictions:
David Katzmaier — Editorial Director, Private Tech
I have been attending CES and reviewing TVs for greater than 20 years, and this present is the Tremendous Bowl for screens. At CES 2025 I count on to see larger TVs than ever, possible topping final yr’s champ, the 115-inch TCL. My favourite TVs are the wacky ideas on the bleeding fringe of usefulness versus cool — and undoubtedly veering towards the latter — like LG’s Clear TV and C-Seed’s $200K folding Micro-LED TV. CES can also be the place I see newfangled, nerd-worthy show tech that surprises even this jaded reviewer, like rollable TVs, flippable telephones, electroluminescent quantum dots, cutting-edge VR and shows inside a contact lens. Fingers crossed that CES 2025 blows my thoughts once more with some sudden future TV tech!
Lisa Eadiccico — Senior Editor, Cell
This will probably be my seventh CES, and identical to in years previous, I am anticipating to see wild ideas (like versatile cellphone screens that bend in numerous instructions); new wearables that measure your well being in numerous methods; and plenty of screens in all places, from the kitchen to the automotive. However I believe synthetic intelligence, which has formally been the tech buzzword of the final two years, will proceed to dominate the present in 2025. Final yr, we obtained a style of how corporations are infusing AI into all the things from new handheld units to automobiles and residential robots, however the know-how is certain to be much more of a spotlight this yr. The problem will probably be slicing by the hype to search out the merchandise which can be truly utilizing AI to meaningfully enhance how their choices work reasonably than simply utilizing the time period to spice up their advertising and marketing.
Eli Blumenthal — Senior Editor, Cell
I’ve misplaced observe of what number of CES reveals I have been lucky sufficient to attend, however I absolutely count on to be intrigued by loads of loopy ideas, a lot of which is able to virtually assuredly not materialize into merchandise we are able to purchase in 2025 (or purchase at an inexpensive value anyway). Final yr we noticed wild concepts for a color-changing BMW and an electrical air taxi from Hyundai, to go along with rollable and clear micro-LED screens from Samsung.
Have been any of this stuff available for shoppers in 2024? No, however that is not at all times the purpose. To me, CES has grow to be a approach to peek behind the R&D curtains to see what among the world’s largest tech corporations are as much as. And though these ideas might not be prepared for completed units or retailer cabinets simply but, they offer us an opportunity to see what’s coming. I count on this yr’s present will probably be no totally different, with plenty of loopy idea automobiles, increased high quality or bigger rollable and foldable shows, and loads of merchandise absolutely immersed in abbreviations like AI, AR and VR.
The Oro robotic, which debuted at CES final yr, promised to observe your pets.
Katie Collins — Senior European Correspondent
As for me, I’ve spent many a CES enjoying with robots — whether or not that be ping-pong or Playing cards Towards Humanity — and I am excited to see what droids I can befriend this yr. What I am actually hoping to see is among the progress that is been made towards embedding AI into robots in methods that may assist them transition out of the present and into the true world, ideally into our properties. It is a leap they’ve lengthy struggled to make. I am additionally excited to see how developments in well being and sweetness tech can empower us to take extra management over our wellness — for instance, utilizing AI to assist diagnose and deal with pores and skin circumstances. I will be holding an in depth eye out too for the businesses which can be utilizing tech to enhance sustainability and accessibility. Plus, I do know Delta’s keynote occasion on the Las Vegas Sphere goes to be a spotlight of the present for me.
Among the best issues about CES is that regardless of our years of expertise and our deep trade contacts, the present at all times manages to shock us with one thing bizarre and wacky we by no means noticed coming. So you’ll want to comply with our protection proper right here at CNET for the most recent, as we kick off one other high-tech new yr. See ya quickly in Vegas!