"Last year, every other product at CES had a chatbot slapped onto it. Your TV could talk. Your fridge could answer trivia. Your laptop had a sidebar that would summarize your emails if you asked nicely. It was novel for about five minutes, then it became background noise. The whole "AI revolution" at CES 2024 and 2025 felt like a tech industry inside joke: everyone knew it was mostly marketing, but nobody wanted to be the one company without an AI sticker on the booth."
"CES 2026 is shaping up differently. Coverage ahead of the show is already calling this the year AI stops being a feature you demo and starts being infrastructure you depend on. The shift is twofold: AI is moving from the cloud onto the device itself, and it is evolving from passive assistants that answer questions into agentic systems that take action on your behalf."
AI is transitioning from cloud-hosted demos to local infrastructure that devices depend on, shifting workloads onto dedicated on-device processors. Major chipmakers are preparing next-generation silicon with neural processing units, including Intel's Panther Lake CPUs and a rumored AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, with Nvidia expected to refresh its RTX lineup. Laptops and consumer gadgets will increasingly run models locally for lower latency, offline capability, and improved privacy. AI functionality is evolving from passive question-answer assistants into agentic systems that take actions on users' behalf. Devices reliant solely on server-side AI risk obsolescence as on-device AI becomes standard.
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