This Week in AI: NVIDIA Wins CES With Rubin and Alpamayo, ChatGPT Health, Anthropic Raise

🎙️ The Voices & The Context

• The Format: Casual banter-filled chat between two hosts recapping weekly AI and tech news, like a high-energy roundup podcast.
• The Key Players:
  • Josh: Tesla diehard, hyped on hardware efficiency and big-picture AI progress.
  • EJazz: Deep dives into tech specs, personal AI user, excited about consumer gadgets and health apps.
• The Vibe: Electrifying and optimistic—pure geek-out energy on AI breakthroughs, with fun tangents, Tesla loyalty, and "line going vertical" hype.

🗝️ Key Themes & Topics

The episode buzzes through CES 2026 highlights, NVIDIA dominance, and AI ecosystem shifts, blending hard tech specs with consumer excitement.

• Topic 1: NVIDIA's Self-Driving Push (Alpameo): Hosts dissect Jensen Huang's flashy CES reveal of Alpameo, a "thinking, reasoning" end-to-end AI for autonomous vehicles. It's vision-language-action model trained on cameras/sensors, partnering with Mercedes via Drive Hyperion (14 cameras, 9 radars, 1 lidar, etc.). Compared to Tesla FSD: NVIDIA licenses software like Apple CarPlay for autonomy, avoiding car manufacturing. Elon sees it as distant competition; hosts call it smart "picks and shovels" play with 7,000 NVIDIA staff (20%) dedicated.
• Topic 2: NVIDIA's Vera Rubin Chip: Bigger bombshell—Vera Rubin superchip delivers 5x speed over Blackwell