TMTPOST -- Nvidia Corporation stock gained around 1% on Monday, outperforming the U.S. stock market as the broader benchmark S&P 500 index closed 0.43% lower. Shares extended their rally last Friday after the artificial intelligence (AI) chip behemoth released its new-generation platform that can serve as the brains for robotic systems.
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Nvidia on Monday introduced the Jetson AGX Thor, a platform for platform for physical AI and robotics that the company described as “a new brain” for robots across research and industry. The platform consists of a Jetson AGX Thor developer kit and production modules.
Built for generative reasoning models, Jetson Thor is powered by the full-stack Nvidia Jetson software platform andenables the next generation of physical AI agents — powered by large transformer models, vision language models and vision language action models — to run in real time at the edge while minimizing cloud dependency.
Nvidia said the platform supports all popular generative AI frameworks and AI reasoning frameworks and AI reasoning models, including Cosmos Reason, DeepSeek, Llama, Gemini and Qwen models, as well as domain-specific models for robotics like Isaac GR00T N1.5
Nvidia described the platform as Blackwell-powered robotics computer delivering 2,070 FP4 teraflops to tackle complex applications including agentic AI, high-speed sensor processing and general robotics tasks.It unlocks real-time reasoning inference, critical for highly performance physical AI applications.
Compared with its predecessor, the Jetson Orin, the Jetson Thor delivers 7.5 times more AI compute, 3.5 times greater energy efficiency to run any generative AI model. It also has 3.1 times more central processing unit (CPU) performance and two times more memory of its predecessor.
Jetson Thor is on sale on Monday, starting at $3,499. It includes a Jetson T5000 module, a reference carrier board with abundant connectivity, an active heatsink with a fan and a power supply.developer kit and production modules. The Jetson T5000 modules are available starting at $2,999 for 1,000 units.
“We’ve built Jetson Thor for the millions of developers working on robotic systems that interact with and increasingly shape the physical world,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “With unmatched performance and energy efficiency, and the ability to run multiple generative AI models at the edge, Jetson Thor is the ultimate supercomputer to drive the age of physical AI and general robotics.”
Early adopters include industry leaders Agility Robotics, Amazon Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Caterpillar, Figure, Hexagon, Medtronic and Meta, while 1X, John Deere, OpenAI and Physical Intelligence are evaluating Jetson Thor to advance their physical AI capabilities. Research labs at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Zurich are tapping Jetson Thor to push the boundaries of perception, planning and navigation models for a host of potential applications.
