Unveiling CES 2025: Anticipated Innovations and Expert Insights into the Future of Technology

CNET is heading to Las Vegas, and we’re bringing you along for the journey. While many of you may be taking a leisurely start to the new year, we’re launching straight into 2025 with our inaugural destination: CES, the grand event of technology exhibitions. Expect us to get up close and personal with everything from outlandish robots to next-gen vehicles and state-of-the-art televisions that will shape the upcoming year.

What exactly is CES?

CES, which previously stood for Consumer Electronics Show, ranks among the largest trade fairs centered on technology in the globe. Held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada, it garners attendance from virtually all major technology firms including Samsung, Sony, LG, Google, Meta, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and Lenovo, in addition to automotive manufacturers such as Honda, Volvo, BMW, and Waymo, along with satellite communications enterprises like Iridium, Globalstar, and SpaceX’s Starlink, and thousands of other exhibitors. According to the CTA, the organization that coordinates the event, last year’s CES attracted over 135,000 participants.

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A significant portion of the offerings we encounter at CES will be concepts—sophisticated ideas that have been actualized but remain in development and may or may not transition into the commercial market as finished goods. There will also be numerous gadgets available for purchase either right away or shortly thereafter. We will inform you about these items and evaluate their value for your earned income.

When does the event commence?

The confirmed dates for CES 2025 are from January 7 to 10, but we will arrive in the city a few days earlier for preliminary explorations and exclusive press-only previews before the event officially opens. Some ancillary events are anticipated as early as Saturday, January 4. Monday, January 6, will be packed with continuous press conferences, where leading names in technology will showcase their newest products and devices to the globe.

How to follow CES

The prime source for all the latest CES updates is right here at CNET. Our team of seasoned reporters and reviewers boasts decades of collective expertise in covering the event. We are dedicated to presenting you with everything we find compelling and significant, and we won’t merely observe new products from a distance. We’ll be interacting with them, experimenting, and trying our best not to drop them, so make sure to follow us across X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky.

This year, CNET is collaborating with our sister Ziff Davis publications such as ZDNET, PCMag, Mashable, and Lifehacker to present the official Best of CES Awards. Our editors and specialists will select winners across various categories and designate one of them as the Best Overall product or service at CES 2025. The victors will be revealed on January 9, and we are currently accepting submissions.

CES 2025 Expectations

During CES 2024, we witnessed thrilling technological trends take shape, including transparent displays and innovative solutions aimed at transitioning your home off the grid. We’re returning for another year to observe how these trends have advanced over the past year, along with what new advancements await in 2025. Here are our expectations for the defining themes of the exhibition.

AI and its representatives 

AI permeated CES 2024, with plenty of impressive demonstrations of this rapidly advancing technology, though there was also a significant amount of unsubstantiated hype. At CES 2025, we’ll seek clear proofs that AI contributes positively to any products it’s integrated within rather than merely serving as a label on a packaging or another feature on a specification sheet.

This year’s exhibition is likely to feature extensive discussions about “agentic AI,” which positions smart assistants as the main interface for devices. Tech companies have heavily alluded to this concept, and it’s also been a focus of experiments, hinting at its potential to replace traditional apps. However, it has yet to be demonstrated convincingly as a future reality.

We may be pleasantly surprised by standalone AI devices. At CES 2024, the Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin unexpectedly garnered significant attention but ultimately did not meet expectations. More plausibly, we’ll observe AI embedded into existing products, ranging from televisions to mobile phones and from snow shovels to oral hygiene tools.

Last year featured the debut of Copilot Plus PCs equipped with dedicated AI buttons, and we anticipate seeing further innovations this year. Samsung, with its “screens everywhere” philosophy, is expected to incorporate AI into its newly designed washer, dryer, and wall oven. LG, on the other hand, is integrating AI sensing technology

into automobiles to “identify and react to the requirements of vehicle passengers while enhancing conditions within the interior.”

Exciting new chips

As much as you arrive at CES eager to witness advancements in technology, you also come with the realization that many products will signify the forthcoming generation of what you already recognize. These enhancements cannot occur without the efforts of chip manufacturers, who create the technology that elevates the performance and capability of our frequently utilized devices.

At this upcoming CES, we anticipate both Nvidia and AMD to reveal new chips, and for the firms they collaborate with to showcase devices featuring those chips. For Nvidia, this is likely to involve Acer, Asus, Razer, Lenovo, and Dell. 

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will inaugurate the event with a keynote speech in which he’s anticipated to announce details about the company’s next-generation CPUs and GPUs, which will likely delight the laptop gaming community among us. The company has already teased its GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs online, and additional information surfaced in a leak concerning Acer Predator Orion PCs.

On the other hand, AMD has already verified that we will witness RDNA 4 GPUs at the event. Regarding Qualcomm, the firm hosted its significant annual launch event back in October, but it typically has something up its sleeve for CES.

Automotive technology in the fast lane

Over the last ten years, automobiles have increasingly claimed their spot at CES. Electric vehicles are one of the most sought-after categories in technology, and CES 2025 will feature the latest in state-of-the-art electric vehicles and transport ideas.

Numerous prominent car manufacturers will return to CES this year, unveiling everything from upgrades in infotainment systems to entirely new electric vehicles. Hyundai is prepared to showcase the world’s first full-windshield holographic display that will extend from the driver’s seat to the front passenger seat, while BMW is expected to unveil its Panoramic iDrive display. Honda has already hinted at two elegant prototype 0 Series electric vehicles, which it will present at the event.

Conventional tech companies are also aiming for a share of the automotive market, with Sony rumored to exhibit the Sony-Honda Afeela vehicle featuring a built-in PS5. Driving much of the next-gen automotive technology are chip manufacturers like Qualcomm, which will likely announce updates of its own at the event.

On the mobility sector of the industry, Waymo, which just declared the international expansion of its autonomous vehicles to Tokyo, is set to share its vision for the future in an exclusive keynote session.

CNET’s knowledgeable forecasts

Many of CNET’s experienced tech specialists will be present in Las Vegas, ready to embrace the strange, eccentric, and extraordinary. For most of us, this isn’t our first experience, and we are approaching the event with elevated expectations. Here are some of our predictions:

David Katzmaier — Editorial Director, Personal Tech
I have been attending CES and evaluating TVs for more than two decades, and this event is the Super Bowl for screens. At CES 2025, I anticipate seeing larger televisions than ever, likely exceeding last year’s champion, the 115-inch TCL. My preferred TVs are the quirky concepts on the forefront of functionality versus style (leaning toward the latter), like LG’s Transparent TV and C-Seed’s $200K folding Micro-LED TV. CES is also where I discover innovative display technology that manages to surprise even this seasoned reviewer, such as rollable TVs, flippable phones, electroluminescent quantum dots, cutting-edge VR, and displays embedded in contact lenses. I am hopeful that CES 2025 will astonish me once again with some unanticipated future TV technology!

Lisa Eadiccico — Senior Editor, Mobile
This marks my seventh CES, and as in previous years, I’m looking forward to witnessing outlandish concepts (such as flexible screens that can bend in various directions); new wearables that monitor health in diverse ways; and a plethora of screens everywhere, from the kitchen to the car. I believe artificial intelligence, which has officially been the technological buzzword of the last two years, will continue to take center stage at the event in 2025. Last year, we got a glimpse of how companies are embedding AI across everything from new handheld devices to cars and home robots, but the technology is bound to be even more emphasized this year. The challenge will be sifting through the hype to discover the products that genuinely utilize AI to enhance their functionality rather than merely using the term to elevate their marketing.

Eli Blumenthal — Senior Editor, Mobile
I’ve lost count of how many CES events I’ve had the fortune to attend, yet I fully expect to be fascinated by numerous eccentric concepts, many of which will almost certainly not come to fruition as products we can purchase in 2025 (or acquire at a reasonable price, at any rate). Last year we observed outrageous proposals for a color-changing BMW and an electric air taxi from Hyundai, alongside rollable and transparent micro-LED displays from Samsung. 

Were any of these items readily accessible to consumers in 2024? No, but that’s not always the objective. To me, CES has evolved into an opportunity to peek behind the R&D curtains to see what some of the globe’s largest tech corporations are developing. Although these concepts may not yet be ready for finalized devices or retail shelves, they provide us a glimpse of what lies ahead. I anticipate this year’s event will be no different, showcasing numerous kooky concept vehicles, enhanced quality or larger rollable and foldable displays, and ample products deeply immersed in acronyms like AI, AR, and VR.

Katie Collins — Senior European Correspondent
As for me, I’ve spent numerous CES events experimenting with robots — whether it’s ping-pong or Cards Against Humanity — and I’m eager to discover what machines I can befriend this year. What I truly hope to observe is the advancements made towards integrating AI into robots in ways that can facilitate their transition from the exhibition floor to the real world, ideally into our homes. It’s a leap they have long grappled to accomplish. I’m also looking forward to seeing how innovations in health and beauty tech can empower us to gain greater control over our wellness — for example, leveraging AI to assist in diagnosing and addressing skin issues. I’ll be keeping a keen eye out too for the enterprises utilizing technology to enhance sustainability and accessibility. Additionally, I know Delta’s keynote session at the Las Vegas Sphere will be a highlight of the show for me.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of CES is that despite our years of experience and our extensive industry connections, the event consistently manages to astonish us with something bizarre and unpredictable. So be sure to follow our coverage right here at CNET for the latest updates as we usher in another high-tech new year. See you soon in Las Vegas.